Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 2 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 3 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 4 | He looked round all their sobered , pitying faces , and registered what was there to be registered , but it was not much ; nothing more than was due to any boy of sixteen , suddenly wiped out for no good reason . |
| 5 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 6 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 7 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 8 | Aschmann in his house , all dressed up for a festive occasion , the most glamorous lady in the theatre , was going to make it a party like no other . |
| 9 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 10 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 11 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 12 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 13 | However , they were not normally set up for the heavy infantryman 's tactics of prolonged defence before a steady advance , although they were misused in these roles at times . |
| 14 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 15 | It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version . |
| 16 | It claims over 1,000 ISVs have already signed up for the new version . |
| 17 | Several big names have already signed up for the massive complex which will house 68 shops when it opens in August . |
| 18 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 19 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 20 | And the advice was on the back of the most comprehensive research ever carried out for a new paper . |
| 21 | As well as crime for corporations and crimes against corporations ( employee theft ) , there are corporations deliberately set up for the sole purpose of committing criminal activity . |
| 22 | Naturally , the highest note is usually kept back for the greatest climax , together with maximum volume , note-length , accentuation , etc . |
| 23 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 24 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 25 | I looked at Jack Mason who just shook his head , gave one of his sourer smiles , and then also holed out for a four . |
| 26 | Are educational establishments really geared up for the European challenge , and do our current measures go far enough ? |
| 27 | We were n't far away from the ruins of an old settlement , abandoned at the time of the dreadful Clearances by islanders who , driven by impossible conditions , bravely set out for the unknown territories of Canada to start their lives afresh . |
| 28 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 29 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 30 | East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw . |