Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it just came back here for the milk and then it 'll be away . |
| 2 | We all waited outside in St Martin 's Lane for 55 minutes , and to my surprise about 99 per cent of them came back in for the finish . ’ |
| 3 | I have n't seen the draft guidelines that came out yesterday for the registration of nursing homes but I understand that they do n't actually address these issues . |
| 4 | Hundreds of car enthusiasts turned up today for the South Lincolnshire Motor Show . |
| 5 | Stefan , perhaps you would be good enough to arrange for them to be collected from my apartment in Vienna and brought down here for the wardrobe woman . ’ |
| 6 | In an upstairs bedroom — the kidnappers tended to avoid the downstairs rooms during daylight hours , despite the thick net curtains that screened them — the South African was seated at a table brought up there for the purpose . |
| 7 | And then er that was that till Saturday evening , especially in the winter , then you went back again for the evening rounds . |
| 8 | When the London staff , gathered round specially for the occasion , began to deliver their verdict and the litany began to roll , Sutton was staggered by their ferocity . |
| 9 | North dropped the bread into the toaster , noticed that it did n't operate when he pressed the lever and looked round vaguely for the reason . |
| 10 | New Barnes School is the subject of a separate investigation by the police and social services into child abuse and has remained closed since it shut down early for the Summer break . |
| 11 | Such a policy , the court held , was improper , since a ‘ business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders . |
| 12 | Pupils would then lob ping-pong balls in his direction and he would swing his tremendous member with the aim of knocking the balls into a waste-bin set up especially for the occasion . |