Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 2 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 3 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 4 | The Iliad went in for the triumvirate in the Ladbroke of 1991 at Leopardstown and then the biggest success of all came at Cheltenham where Destriero was supposed to have landed a gamble of over £1m in taking the Supreme Novices Hurdle . |
| 5 | But if we do n't get a good response to this I might stick it in for the day in The Post . |
| 6 | Val set off for the interior in the best of the hire cars available , a well worn seat with grudging breaks , and drove alone on empty roads through a barren and alien territory . |
| 7 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 8 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 9 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 10 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 11 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 12 | Rex Mundi , Lazlo Woodbine and the two-headed offspring of a popular show-biz couple put up for the night in a room above the Tomorrowman Tavern . |
| 13 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe we should listen out for the noise in the voices of Kristin Hersh , Tim Buckley , Prince , Michael Jackson — the way they chew and twist language not for any decipherable , expressive reason , ( that 's to say , not to accentuate more deeply the conventional mannerisms of ‘ passion ’ ) , but for the gratuitous voluptuousness of utterance itself . |
| 15 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 16 | The sharp cold , after his warm exertions , took his breath away for a moment as he hung on the stern of the canoe , but as soon as he had recovered his breath , the Commander struck out for the shore in a strong breaststroke that did not disturb the phosphorescence more than he could help , and barely ruffled the water . |
| 17 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |