Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 2 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 3 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 4 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 5 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 6 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 7 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 8 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 9 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 10 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 11 | She made sure that Duart and his heir would be magnificently turned out for this visit to a foreign clan . |
| 12 | Er well that did n't last very long , he was n't really cut out for that sort of thing at all . |
| 13 | You had n't turned up for that date . |
| 14 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 15 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |
| 16 | that that green was n't put on for that competition . |
| 17 | The projected future population growth rate for Wales is then broken down for each county . |
| 18 | In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation . |
| 19 | The land is then tied up for another generation . |
| 20 | The bomb that killed President Muawad appeared to have defeated or at least set back for many months the Arab initiative spearheaded by Morocco , Algeria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | Serafine sways with her hands , Xanthe follows , imitates gigglingly , but Miranda is too grown up for such playschool ways . |