Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language . |
2 | Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake . |
3 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |
4 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
5 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
6 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |