Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 2 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 3 | Ipswich were unfortunate to lose winger Jeremy English with fractured ribs , ruling him out for the remainder of the season . |
| 4 | Soon afterwards , however , Ellcock became the ‘ nearly man ’ again , entering hospital for further surgery to remove the screws that had snapped in his back , ruling him out for the rest of the summer and , ultimately , despite encouraging practice sessions with the England A party last winter , the immediate future . |
| 5 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 6 | The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening . |
| 7 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 8 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 9 | They never were , and war in 1879 cut their value , many holders selling them off for a pittance . |
| 10 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 11 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 12 | I 'm breaking them in for a horse . |
| 13 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 14 | On application they literally digest smells by producing enzymes which attack the source of the odour , breaking it down for the bacteria to absorb . |
| 15 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 16 | The shortage of labour forced the landowners to change their methods of exploiting their estates , most obviously in the abandonment of direct cultivation of the demesne by the lord 's paid men in favour of leasing it out for a cash rent . |
| 17 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 18 | How about taking me out for a drink then ? |
| 19 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 20 | Instead , I suggested Jeanne and John tire Moby with a few chase and throw-fetch games in the garden before taking him out for a walk on an extendable lead . |
| 21 | She expected Urquhart but found first a message from her brother inviting her down for the weekend . |
| 22 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 23 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 24 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 25 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 26 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 27 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 28 | Now then , I like the new look — ’ Sarella had had her hair cropped ‘ — and was thinking of putting you in for the ingénue , but I 'm having second thoughts . ’ |
| 29 | The classy Irish defender can already picture the season building to a climax with Aston Villa and United slugging it out for the Championship . |
| 30 | Savalas Clouting ( 17 ) , Shaun Tacey ( 18 ) and Laurence Hare ( 23 ) will be fighting it out for a place in the Witches reserve berths after graduating from last season 's double-winning junior side . |