Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they have five days to sell the dog , make arrangements for the wife and kids and set off for Moscow 's Star City , ’ he said . |
| 2 | She might as well cut her losses and take off for Phobos or Longevity , see if there was anything there , see if there was anyone that had n't flown down for carnival . |
| 3 | Latest official figures show that shoppers are even turning to credit again , to buy presents and stock up for Christmas . |
| 4 | Undaunted , the Carlist militias — the Requetés — formed into columns and set out for Madrid , some 500 kilometres to the south , in buses , in trucks and on foot . |
| 5 | The other classic Ce Ce Rogers anthem lifted from the vaults and dusted down for rerelease . |
| 6 | He screwed up the note into small pieces and looked around for others . |
| 7 | So it was that with high spirits I packed Baedekers and prejudices , boots and a bootload of assumptions and set out for Dover . |
| 8 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 9 | It was far too big for one , but it was regularly cleaned by the leaseholders of the building , who maintained all services and looked out for security . |
| 10 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 11 | And she was suddenly denied job interviews and passed over for promotion , she said . |