Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 6 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 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 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 11 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 12 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the bike is only cranked over for an instant before the Australian wrenches it upright and turns on the throttle . |
| 15 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 18 | The transport consultants Oscar Faber TPA will develop work already carried out for a study on short-term measures in the Forth area . |
| 19 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 20 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 21 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 22 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 23 | He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 26 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 27 | He ordered us to collect picks and shovels and to start digging holes already marked out for the tentage … . |
| 28 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |