Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 2 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 3 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 4 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 7 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 8 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 9 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 10 | Banners , pamphlets and boxes being carried in for the start of fresher 's fair . |
| 11 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 12 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 13 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 14 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 15 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 16 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 17 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 19 | Indeed , Baldock and Ungerson have argued that ‘ because most care-work is actually carried out for no payment at all … these payments , however small , are an improvement on the usual position of informal carers ’ ( Baldock and Ungerson , 1991 , p. 147 ) . |
| 20 | Observation was carried out for a total of nine weeks in the offices of four solicitors . |
| 21 | The transport consultants Oscar Faber TPA will develop work already carried out for a study on short-term measures in the Forth area . |
| 22 | A review of the significance of natural contamination to planning and development in Great Britain is being carried out for the DOE with the aim of outlining in broad terms the relevance of the physical and chemical restraints on planning and development imposed by natural contamination . |
| 23 | This controlling and canalising of experience , it is argued , is carried out for the benefit of , if not directly on behalf of , the ruling property-owning class . |
| 24 | A survey of the groundwater resources on Jersey is being carried out for the States of Jersey . |
| 25 | Dr before we pass to other business , I would like to thank you very much indeed for all the work that the very small size panel on doctrine has carried out for the good of the assembly and the work of the church . |
| 26 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 27 | We have high and growing unemployment , and under those policies that high unemployment is built in for the whole of the 1990s , along with recession and slow growth . |
| 28 | Now the old-fashioned , strong hessian is wonderful for keeping you warm and dry and John always sported three sacks — one round his waist , another over his shoulders , and the third with the corner pushed in for a hood over his head . |
| 29 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 30 | After that , it too was turned in for a Qualcast with loppy handles and collapsible wheels . |