Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 2 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 3 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 4 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 5 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 6 | mhm Well I mean this obviously is a decision is it not for the military commanders ? |
| 7 | No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired . |
| 8 | But it was left to Oxford Hawks in the gold shirts and Gloucester City in the red to battle it out for the minor places in a Central South derby . |
| 9 | Uncertainty about the future and lack of continuity of decisions make it hard for the substitute parents to make a strong commitment to the child and include the natural parent . |
| 10 | A 1–0 result that should settle us down for the coming weeks especially with Liverpool and Arsenal back to back . |