Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is er And get Madge and Tom if you like , er , when we get , we 'll nip over for the week , you know ? |
| 32 | All the same , I 'll listen tonight for the alarm bell . |
| 33 | The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by . |
| 34 | But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood . |
| 35 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 36 | Before he could head off for the dustbin , Elinor gripped his wrist firmly . |
| 37 | In contrast with their younger counterparts , some of whom at least could hope realistically for the possibility of promotion , the older field men have little ambition , though they retain some sense of mission . |
| 38 | ‘ She did n't say that , ’ he replied , the ebullience with which he 'd set out for the Greens ' household nowhere to be seen . |
| 39 | If one wished to do so , one could sign up for the directive while keeping the 1908 legislation in force . |
| 40 | I dreaded seeing him , and thought I 'd go out for the evening , but then I realized there was no point in that , it was only putting off the inevitable . |
| 41 | The incident must have shocked them , so logically they 'd rest up for the night . ’ |
| 42 | She gave me the tip she 'd put aside for the waitress and then raided her purse again to replace it . |
| 43 | She would n't be able to join in the races now , but she could get there for the prize-giving at the end of them , and for the diving display , and this time , if the yacht was there , she would stop . |
| 44 | ‘ I thought I 'd turn in for the night . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I was just about to ring you , dear , to see if we could pop over for the day , just to say goodbye — but I 've been so busy these last few days , what with one thing and another . |
| 46 | They warm them by pressing them against brood patches , areas of skin naked of feathers which a bird may develop specially for the breeding season or have permanently on its breast concealed by the long feathers growing around them . |
| 47 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 48 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 49 | Then I used to wait there for the Doctor , stop there and he used to , I used to pick him up and he 'd ride up the rough road till he got to his car . |
| 50 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |
| 51 | ‘ Let's go away for the weekend , ’ he said . |
| 52 | Well let's go down for the jars and then they can , see |
| 53 | Unlike his father , he would remain there for the rest of his life , without resentment , becoming in the end a partner in a somewhat unenterprising firm . |
| 54 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 55 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 56 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 57 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 58 | I found a piece of quarter-sawn oak in my wood store , which would do perfectly for the job . |
| 59 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |
| 60 | Only £2 million is being spent this financial year but Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , said the extra would do more for the quality of patient care than any other aspect of the Government 's health reforms . |