Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 2 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 3 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 4 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 5 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 6 | Did you have to psych yourself up for the part ? |
| 7 | We want properly maintained rights of way and better information about the resources needed to sort them out for the benefit of all . |
| 8 | The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair . |
| 9 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |
| 10 | Something hot to set you up for the journey . ’ |
| 11 | I went to visit her just for a coffee or something , and she started saying , after a lot of stuttering , that I was having an affair with her husband . |
| 12 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 13 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |
| 14 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 15 | ‘ I should like to see you alone for a moment , Caroline , if you please . ’ |
| 16 | In the early days , the salesman behind the counter had served to promote the merits of different products , and to wrap them carefully for the customer 's homeward journey . |
| 17 | Then : ‘ You 'll have to let me out for the Jubilee . |
| 18 | As for snooker , well , to approach the televisual ideal , by which we all measure ourselves , I 'd have to do nothing else for the rest of my life . |
| 19 | He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move . |
| 20 | we can always ask to put them away for a week yeah that 's what I might do |
| 21 | Do n't I get any thanks for offering to put you up for the weekend ? ’ |
| 22 | Nero sends his luv and wants to put you in for the chariot racing next time . |
| 23 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 24 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 25 | He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain . |
| 26 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 27 | I could n't motivate myself to do it just for the sake of it . |
| 28 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 29 | We may be able to put it off for a while , but make that decision , we have got to , some day or another . |
| 30 | There is nothing whatever to do about it , except , possibly , to put it down for a time . |