Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 2 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 3 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 4 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 5 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 6 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 7 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 8 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 9 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |