Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a statutory procedure laid down for the consultation process . |
| 2 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 3 | Helena Swanwick became a close friend of C. P. Scott [ q.v. ] and his wife Rachel , and over the next eighteen years wrote and reviewed regularly for the Manchester Guardian on domestic and feminist subjects and gardening . |
| 4 | Where the user takes advantage of the voluntary vision screening programme and as a consequence of vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned is recommended to have a full eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , then during this interim period , the user will be permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their own choice . |
| 5 | Where the ophthalmic optician subsequently prescribes special corrective appliances solely to correct vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned , and where normal corrective appliances ( ie those prescribed for any other purposes ) can not be used , during this interim period , a Head of Department will refund such costs up to a maximum of £50 . |
| 6 | Trade unions were already suffering , and the implementation of the decision to return to the gold standard augured badly for the staple export industries . |
| 7 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 8 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 9 | Ships from Alexandria sailed daily for the Atlantic coast of Europe . |
| 10 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 11 | San Jose-based the Complete PC Inc is to be acquired by Boca Research Inc , Boca Raton , Florida : the Complete PC , a privately held company , develops , manufactures and markets facsimile modem and voice messaging products ; terms were not disclosed ; Boca Research recently raised some $13.6m from its initial public offering and designs , manufactures , and markets worldwide board-level enhancement products directed primarily for the MS-DOS micro market . |
| 12 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 13 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 14 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 15 | Not being sure if the strait , or inlet for the Roach , was actually navigable through to the Crouch , I went back down the Roach , entered the Crouch again by Wallasea Ness , and turned seaward for the Crouch shore of Winter Marsh . |
| 16 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 17 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 18 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 19 | So Strachan in mid-tour signed up for the East Coast Bays club and the North Harbour seniors in a bid to get consistent first class play . |
| 20 | We walked out for the victory ceremony and stood behind the plinth . |
| 21 | The first programme consists of his first commissioned ballet , Danses Concertantes , the early whimsical Solitaire , and the powerful Las Hermanas made originally for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963 , remounted for SWRB in 1976 and not seen at the Wells since 1984 . |
| 22 | He worked successively for the BBC World Service and for the news agencies Associated Press and Reuters . |
| 23 | As Carole 's hand felt gingerly for the light switch , her husband grabbed her round the waist and buried his face in her neck , making growling noises as he did so . |
| 24 | But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest . |
| 25 | He reached up for the light switch . |
| 26 | He felt automatically for the light switch but did not turn it on . |
| 27 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 28 | Sheldukher reached out for the modulator control . |
| 29 | He felt around for the bedside table and the box of matches . |
| 30 | His thumb felt surely for the safety catch and pushed it off . |