Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’ |
| 2 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 3 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 4 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |
| 5 | Some of the queue was syphoning off into a road signposted for Algar Seco , a bizarre coastal rock formation on the outskirts of the village , while other vehicles were following the one-way system and looping in and out of the square . |
| 6 | Finally she knelt again with her head down and he stood on his toes with arms stretched out and up like a condor going for the kill . |
| 7 | The AFPFL members of the Council therefore came up with an announcement intended for public consumption as much as for adoption by the Council . |
| 8 | The sheets are reported to have turned up inside a frame offered for sale in a provincial Sunday flea market outside Paris . |
| 9 | An ease in grade plus the bonus of Trap 1 should all add up to a return to form for the Gordon Hodson runner . |
| 10 | The rugby world stood up and took notice and Best was marked out as a man destined for greater things . |
| 11 | Next morning Dairyman Crick sent all the dairy people out into a field to search for garlic plants . |
| 12 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 13 | Yet she meant well and one night went out in a fog to look for me . |
| 14 | After the fight had ended John Pain went out in a Magister to look for survivors and found two German aircrew hanging onto a lifebuoy off Ghajn Tuffieha . |
| 15 | The tabloid stories emerged after Wyman missed out on a video shoot for ‘ High Wire ’ . |
| 16 | While he stood in amazement and distress Simon moved quietly about like a hound searching for a line . |
| 17 | Karen bustled round with a pan looking for pieces . |