Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally he will get in early to see the morning shift or stay late for the night shift . |
| 2 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 3 | The thirties was the decade when smart hostesses took to serving a great many dishes iced or frozen simply for the originality of the idea . |
| 4 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 5 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
| 6 | Young or old , going out or staying home for the evening , a glass of Scotch sets the scene , complements the mood , ensures complete enjoyment … never intrusive , always compatible … |
| 7 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 8 | All day excursion , the classic Brighton holiday outing with the afternoon on the Island £15.95 ( under 16 's £8 off ) or stay aboard for the afternoon cruise round Portsmouth Harbour £19.95 ( under 16 's £10 off ) . |
| 9 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 10 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 11 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 12 | Everyone , it seemed , was anxious to contribute , and ‘ Oh , the rubbish that turns up for the Dolls ' House . ’ |
| 13 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 14 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 15 | I do not underestimate the challenge that lies ahead for the London Implementation Group . |
| 16 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 17 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 18 | In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment . |
| 19 | This more than made up for the Tramway Department 's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service ! |
| 20 | Mortgages hit family incomes more directly and forcibly than paying more for the Volkswagen or Sony video recorder which would be among the potentially inflationary effects of devaluation . |
| 21 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 22 | Radio RIN ( Radio Infantil Nacional — National Children 's Radio ) is the only radio station in Mexico that caters exclusively for the country 's 41 million children . |
| 23 | Originally intending to go on stage , drop ten poems and have them recorded for vinyl , Galliano have enlisted the help of former Style Council keyboardist Mick Talbot to come up with a calling card that bodes well for the future . |
| 24 | Things had connected , falling into a new shape — a shape that bode well for the future . |
| 25 | Yet , although the Republicans crassly linked the country 's economic and social problems with the presence of foreigners in Germany , those districts that voted heavily for the party had only minimal numbers of foreign residents . |
| 26 | It is a system that works well for the police and for the city 's religious leaders . |
| 27 | views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men . |
| 28 | It 's like the little one said last , she said , can we come and stay here for the weekend you know , and stay up in Aunty Bonnie 's room , they call upstairs , and Margaret 's face she said , well er , my god she 's got some good stuff up there you know , furniture |
| 29 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
| 30 | Opening the weather door 360 feet up and stepping out for the final 44 feet outside is , he says without particular emphasis , ‘ dramatic ’ . |