Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind .
2 He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip .
3 A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least .
4 she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ?
5 We ca n't accept these conditions for our employees so sign 'em up for the G M B and fight for their rights .
6 After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way .
7 Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America .
8 Having all four styles comfortably within your repertoire thus equips you best for the total process of learning from experience .
9 We 've got some soup so we thought well we can make some of that up in the morning then we could just warm it up for the dinners
10 Or do you think she just put it there for the argument ?
11 For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ?
12 Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month .
13 Most varieties supplied by garden centres grow a little too large to make ideal houseplants if you just take them in for the winter , but many dwarf and miniature types are ideal for deep sunny windowsills .
14 You just take it over for the weekend ?
15 ‘ You have rather got it in for the doctor , have n't you ? ’ said Henry easily .
16 Cusworth , England 's former stand-off who still turns it on for the Tigers , leaves for a fortnight 's holiday next week .
17 It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night .
18 As Evans-Pritchard succinctly sums it up for the Zande : ‘ Every misfortune supposes witchcraft , and every enmity suggests its author ’ .
19 I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't
20 It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation .
21 Once we had sat together in that ‘ condemned ’ gallery until evening , and the sacristan , not knowing we were there , had nearly locked us in for the night .
22 You are also preparing them well for the time when they will be outside your jurisdiction for ever .
23 One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita .
24 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 .
25 It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly .
26 Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then .
27 Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either .
28 Besides even if they did n't win it again for the next two million years we 'd never hear the end of it .
29 I would n't give him up for the world . ’
30 I wo n't see you again for the rest of the time
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