Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to .
2 Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal .
3 To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening .
4 Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag .
5 THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while .
6 I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea .
7 At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress .
8 Tom 's widow and son flew over for the service and were very appreciative of the many old friends who attended , and for the lovely lunch provided by the ladies of the Kinghan Church .
9 Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it .
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