Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’
2 Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad .
3 Finally they reached home and tried to put the kettle on for a welcome cup of tea — to discover their water had been cut off .
4 The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time .
5 One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes .
6 At least two departments in France will be focussed on for the detailed investigation of home owners .
7 The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text .
8 He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets .
9 Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists .
10 Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings .
11 Tough win SUNDERLAND North voters could be in for a liberal dose of confusion : as well as Vic Halom ( Liberal Democrat ) candidates include Win Lundgren , representing the Liberal Party . ’
12 Still , I should be coming in for a tidy sum of compensation .
13 ‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know .
14 While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry .
15 We 're in for a serious bout of millennial malaise .
16 Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism .
17 Eliza settled in for a four-month stint of painting and drawing .
18 Mm , either way though , I mean the thing is if they do , you , you would be in for a little bit of something , if you hung it out till be , to being redundant
19 Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered .
20 Otherwise , they 're in for a grim time of it .
21 British Rail comes in for a fair bit of stick from travellers who would heartily support the loud speaker announcement heard by Philip White .
22 We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ?
23 Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent .
24 Westminster is now in for a furious bout of behind-the-scenes arm twisting as Government whips try every trick in the book to persuade the waverers back into the fold .
25 This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft .
26 Nevertheless , Sun has come in for no small amount of criticism in pursuing what is often strictly an ‘ invented here ’ approach to technology solutions , at the expense of making some pragmatic marketing decisions .
27 They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name .
28 Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print .
29 Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest .
30 Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it .
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