Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This more than made up for the Tramway Department 's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service ! |
| 6 | William Green came to live in Ambleside in 1800 , when he retired from surveying and map making , and painted there for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 8 | The ANC for its part responded that it regarded the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) as the private army of the NP and called instead for the integration of MK and the SADF into a new national army . |
| 9 | Of the six local children cast and trained especially for the production , eight-year-old Eve Macdonald makes a cute Gretl . |
| 10 | In the interval , Miss Honey left the classroom and headed straight for the Headmistress 's study . |
| 11 | They arrived at Alghero a little before five and headed straight for the home of Guido 's friends . |
| 12 | This draper 's ploy was a bit of a con , for unless asked specifically for the farthing change , the assistant handed you a small card with perhaps three or four safety pins or a piece of paper with ordinary pins attached . |
| 13 | This can also be seen with evening primrose oil ; though not an essential oil , it appears to work better when applied externally for the treatment of hyperactivity in children . |
| 14 | Handson in association with Stanley Stanley Tools are offering £100 worth of Stanley and Rabone tools as shown below for the winner of Hands On competition for readers ' tips . |
| 15 | STANLEY TOOLS are offering £100 worth of Stanley and Rabone tools as shown below for the winner of our Hands On competition for readers ' tips . |
| 16 | Generally speaking , wild antelopes , sheep and goats all tend to have the right-hand helix ( as defined above for the screw ) on the left side of the head and vice versa ( heteronymous ) , whereas the opposite is often true for domesticated sheep and goats ( homonymous ) . |
| 17 | Index biopsy specimens were taken during this colonoscopic examination as described above for the polyp group . |
| 18 | For the recognition phase , a candidate string can either be compared with a list of grams of the same length as itself , or it can be divided into sequences of shorter grams ( in the same way as described above for the acquisition phase ) and compared with a list of grams of this shorter length . |