Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 2 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 3 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 4 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 5 | Legal contracts drawn up for the appeal also guarantee that all the money , which now stands at £270,000 , must be spent on the unit . |
| 6 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 7 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 8 | Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts . |
| 9 | ‘ Hodge has been ruled out for the season after an appendix operation , but I am confident Jones will do a good job . |
| 10 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 11 | The following techniques are outlawed under s3 : restricting the right to bid to more than one article ; goods being knocked down for a price less than the highest bid ; or where there are " free " gifts . |
| 12 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 13 | She was obviously impatient to be taken out for a spin even though there was hardly puff enough to stir her anemometer . |
| 14 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 15 | The start of trading on the New York and American Stock Exchanges was held up for an hour yesterday after a fire , caused by an electrical fault , broke out in the building housing the exchanges ' computer systems , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |