Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] for the [noun] " 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 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 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 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 7 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 8 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 9 | With their male love of machines , he and his friends ( especially rounded up for the occasion ) spent hours tinkering with it , heads down in worship under the bonnet . |
| 10 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 11 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was , too , something unaccountable about Richard — perhaps the same wilfulness that induced him to live offshore although his marriage was in a perilous state — which attracted him to Pratts because celebrations were only held there for the death of a king or queen . |
| 14 | But even diaries of terror , such as have been published from the records of survivors or victims of totalitarian regimes , were rarely written simply for the author to look back on in years to come — for European Jews there was rarely much hope of any future . |
| 15 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 16 | He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night . |
| 17 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 18 | The Guardian of Aug. 2 reported that the government was to provide a further Fl650 million for energy conservation in addition to the Fl1,000 million already allocated annually for the programme . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 20 | Henry is best known today for the series of public contests of poetic invective in which he engaged with his student Michael the Cornishman [ q.v. ] |
| 21 | He ordered us to collect picks and shovels and to start digging holes already marked out for the tentage … . |
| 22 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 23 | DEC , Hewlett-Packard , Hitachi , IBM and Groupe Bull have already signed on for the event . |
| 24 | Anglers from the St Helens and Newton-le-Willows areas are already signed up for the waterfront beat . |
| 25 | Andrew Martin and Carl Cartwright are already lined up for the trip . |
| 26 | World championships in several sports are already lined up for the Arena , as well as national and local sports events to drawn sports fans from all over Britain . |
| 27 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 28 | Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties . |
| 29 | However , such a detailed service is usually organised primarily for the consumer rather than for the media , though answering press queries will be part of its function . |
| 30 | And they 're purposely designed just for the horses |