Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sat them in for the whole of the break and one group of her , hers I think . |
| 2 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 3 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 4 | If it were up to me , I 'd jock you off for the rest of the season . |
| 5 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 6 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 7 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 8 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Phew , another close squeeze today with a very lucky 3–2 victory over a luckless City side without their main striker Quinn , whose out for the rest of the season with knee ligament problems . |
| 11 | We want properly maintained rights of way and better information about the resources needed to sort them out for the benefit of all . |
| 12 | Well do I recall the ecstasy , and the shame , when on about two occasions each year during the summer he would take Jerry , Anna and me out for the day to one of the many beautiful villages around Glasgow . |
| 13 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 14 | Or were you just stringing him along for the fun of it ? ’ |
| 15 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 16 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 17 | A long exile ended in 1989 when England manager Geoff Cooke , no longer able to ignore Hill 's superb form for all-conquering Bath , brought him back for the game against Fiji at Twickenham . |
| 18 | Soon afterwards , however , Ellcock became the ‘ nearly man ’ again , entering hospital for further surgery to remove the screws that had snapped in his back , ruling him out for the rest of the summer and , ultimately , despite encouraging practice sessions with the England A party last winter , the immediate future . |
| 19 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 20 | Gary Stevens , whose non-appearance was announced on Monday , is to enter hospital tomorrow for an operation on his damaged left foot that will keep him out for the rest of the season . |
| 21 | Ipswich were unfortunate to lose winger Jeremy English with fractured ribs , ruling him out for the remainder of the season . |
| 22 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 23 | But if we do n't get a good response to this I might stick it in for the day in The Post . |
| 24 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 25 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 26 | If I was n't able to admit it to some old woman I 'd never see again and who did n't matter a scrap to me , how was I going to face it out for the rest of my life ? |
| 27 | But maybe the leaders , Brice Lalonde and Antoine Waechter , will have to fight it out for the leadership of a united ‘ green ’ party before a real alliance can be forged . |
| 28 | The Maritime Museum is fighting it out for the title with the National Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby and the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh . |
| 29 | German Shepherds from eight different police forces are battling it out for the title of the best in the west . |
| 30 | In this respect , it would seem to be more important that family relationships improve , whether or not husband and wife remain together , rather than urging parents to ‘ stick it out for the sake of the children ’ in unhappy marriages . |