Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 2 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 3 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 4 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 5 | Day Two : At 8.00am breakfast is on the table and your cruiser casts off for the sail to the ancient spa town of Bad Schandau . |
| 6 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 7 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 8 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 9 | The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire . |
| 10 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 11 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |
| 12 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |
| 13 | The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more . |
| 14 | ‘ Boom , Boom , ’ says the boogieman , as he coolly shoots his lady down , rams her into his car , steers off to his house , gets a bang out of watching her walking the floor , and then settles down for a bit of baby talk . |
| 15 | Finally , exhausted and irritable , he gives in for the sake of peace . |
| 16 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 17 | BLIMEY LOOK AT THAT The hand moves up for a squeeze on the hips . |
| 18 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |
| 19 | He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is . |
| 20 | I know Macca comes in for a lot of stick from certain members but he 's by far the classiest midfielder in the country and a damm sight better than alot of the so called european geniuses . |
| 21 | I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her . |
| 22 | This time it 's Murray Mouse : Supercop that comes up for a lump of cheese and a quick spin on the squeaky exercise wheel that keeps the whole house awake at night . |
| 23 | If the person makes up for the deficit by eating extra nutritious food , then he or she might have an adequate amount of nutrients , but the high overall food and calorie intake will lead to obesity . |
| 24 | Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial . |
| 25 | Christopher Jabelman often stops by for a chat during the day , but this is different . |