Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Finally , the field of comparative religion is opened up for the students in the study of the faiths of the modern world . |
| 13 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 14 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 15 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 18 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 19 | Sterland announced his return to fitness by saying : ‘ I am picking up my training steadily and looking to turn out for the reserves in the middle of next week . |