Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 2 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 3 | I wo n't wait for the card , for the bill to come in for the card . |
| 4 | The need for the interpreter to search actively for a context in which the deictic references can be successfully disambiguated is not a peculiarly literary phenomenon , but applies to a wide variety of language uses . |
| 5 | ROD WALLACE last night pleaded for the chance to make up for his England heartache , writes John Edwards . |
| 6 | But at the moment serving with the group of churches in Ealy , Bathyclyn and also with erm part time working in Ealy as the youth worker for the community working partly for Dr Barnados partly for the ULT and Methodist and he 'll acting in it as well in Ealy and sponsored by the Global of the United States . |
| 7 | At the other end Tyrone Howe who saw very little of the ball during the match went over for a try in the left corner , following a fine break from Andrew Gallagher . |
| 8 | After a private conference with Mother Superior , the Sisters announced that there would be a special rosary every morning , during the time set aside for special intentions , and that the whole Junior School would pray together that Martha and Tilda 's Daddy should come back to them . |
| 9 | When the goslings hatch , they will recognize the first moving object they see as the creature to follow around for the next few weeks . |
| 10 | In any event many contracts for the provision of the service come up for regular renewal , giving you the chance to tender when they do . |
| 11 | It is true that much of the country closes down for too long over this festive period , though there are advantages for industry in doing that and we all deserve a decent break at this time of the year . |
| 12 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 13 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 14 | Sir I wish to present a petition containing a hundred and sixty six signatures of people who are opposed to the shutting off of the road calling instead for |
| 15 | However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site . |
| 16 | SUMMER nights are very short and not the right time of the year to look out for the stars . |
| 17 | Save as otherwise expressly provided , the definitions in sections 4 and 5 of the Act apply only for the purposes of interpreting section 1 of the Act : see section 1(3) . |
| 18 | While much of the competition charged more for ‘ new skills ’ , for example in distributed computing , MMT 's policy , he said , was to charge the same rates for all types of expertise . |
| 19 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She thought of the shoot lined up for tomorrow morning at Paolo 's , a relatively new design house , and shook her head . |
| 22 | The opening campaigns of the war went well for the French . |
| 23 | Some comparisons of the seasons can be included here and sunny or shady parts of the garden sorted out for various times of the day . |
| 24 | Before the justices on that occasion the local authority had proposed that further attempts be made to improve the ability of the mother to care adequately for the children so that their future could be with her . |
| 25 | ‘ All I could see was the lights of the car coming straight for me . |
| 26 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 27 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 28 | But certainly by the end of the 17th century there was a huge concert up there at this time of the morning going on for an hour . |
| 29 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 30 | The half-backs , James Pinnington ( scrum-half ) and his partner Matthew Coe were , as they were last season , most impressive and the excellence of the pack augurs well for the coming winter . |