Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
2 Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works .
3 I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ?
4 and people all turned sideways for the tourists ,
5 For these cruel rituals the most wicked and depraved of ‘ Satan 's felines ’ were strongly preferred and all-black cats were eagerly sought out for the flames .
6 One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read .
7 The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch .
8 Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving .
9 Just watch out for the gateposts — topped by lions . ’
10 Once she was out of her chair I should not like to keep her hanging about , and I can always make straight for the Ladies at Harvey Nicholls [ sic ] .
11 Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties .
12 And they 're purposely designed just for the horses
13 The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in .
14 A handful of other members who live locally attend just for the lectures .
15 Because the trust was originally set up for the purposes of mitigating inheritance tax the trust may come within the provisions of ss739 and 740 with the exemption mentioned in s741 not being available .
16 After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban .
17 Willi frequently turned up for the sessions where Therese was working with Luiza , Freddi and Alfred .
18 I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’
19 He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up .
20 Whether or not genitalia were seen , either in long shot or close-up , was far less to the point than whether the sexual behaviour displayed was criminal in itself and yet presented solely for the purposes of sexual arousal .
21 The young Fusiliers had been patriotically offered up for the politicians ' errors ; they had even been bullied by the militant women brandishing their white feathers , and they went cheering , singing , promising to come home victoriously to the grime and love of their Lancashire womb .
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