Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get as close as possible to sea-dwelling fauna ( and perhaps pick up a crustacean for the lunchtable ) , take a short course in diving and snorkelling . |
| 2 | The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account . |
| 3 | Timing is started over the holding point , so work out the time for the turns as well . |
| 4 | Traditionally , the centre-half , under the offside law as it then was , played chiefly as an attacker , but even before the offside law was changed in 1925 to increase goal-scoring chances , and thus bring about a need for stronger defence , he was becoming more a third defender . |
| 5 | Thus one liaison group teacher commented that when lower attaining pupils are abroad on school journeys they quickly pick up a feeling for the conversion rate of the local currency . |
| 6 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 7 | The issue was finally resolved in our day , as the government have now set up a pension for poets , a license to be lazy . |
| 8 | Following Botham Wanderers ' defeat , we now move off the bottom for the first time in four months . |
| 9 | So the question is this : if the developing property relations and pattern of financial flows within British capitalism increasingly open up a space for socialist argument in favour of planned investment to benefit both ‘ workers ’ and ‘ savers ’ ( substantially overlapping categories ) , how is that space to be exploited ? |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't even have a separation because I know what damage that does to the children and I would never , never , never break up the home for their sake . ’ |