Example sentences of "put [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , a creditable show was put on for the public , which in true GWAD fashion , stood their ground despite what the elements threw at them . |
| 2 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 3 | Yes you 're actually e sitting outside the original house , as it was built cos we had a room put on for the the back here originally . |
| 4 | Plainly if only two numbers have been put together for the main number , added entry headings can be generated merely by reversing the component number ( e.g. main entry under 331.2:687.9 and added entry under 687.9:331.2 ) . |
| 5 | After the news of the secret negotiations between the government , Leyland Vehicles and GM broke in February 1986 , the government allowed alternative bids to be put in for the different parts of the firm . |
| 6 | The efforts that Sony has put in for the NEWS outside Japan would give NEC a flying start in the US and Europe should it decide to enter the international workstation market . |
| 7 | We 've put in for the club entry and we 're just waiting to hear , you know , if we 've been lucky or not . |
| 8 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 9 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 10 | Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists . |
| 11 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 12 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 13 | Bob 's put down for the Wednesday and the Thursday off , so it 's the Tuesday and the Friday I 'm stuck on the second week |
| 14 | There is no point in ransacking the cellar for the finest bottled sunshine that has been put away for the special occasion . |
| 15 | The continuing need to demonstrate self control results in all lesser activities being put off for the time-being . |
| 16 | You raise the possibility of a continuous loop presentation video : the idea is not a new one but has been put aside for the moment because of the high costs involved in making such an item . |
| 17 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 18 | With the approaching end of war in 1918 coalition became more positive because the coalition now had to deal with the issues that had been put aside for the duration , and more controversial because this pushed some Unionists into outright opposition . |
| 19 | Because private accommodation is usually paid a month at a time , as compared to a term in advance in halls of residence , it 's often tempting to lull oneself into a false sense of secure finances , spending money that should have been put aside for the rent . |
| 20 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 21 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 22 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 23 | In later years some swings were put up for the school , but that was after my time . |
| 24 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 25 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 26 | And also any alterations or recommendations for the national agreement the case was put up for the delegates . |
| 27 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 28 | The Army and Navy have moved significantly down the path towards contracting out and have very few contracts left to be put out for the first time . |
| 29 | Meanwhile the court organist at Salzburg , Adlgasser , had died suddenly in December 1777 and it was suggested to Leopold that Mozart 's name might be put foward for the post . |
| 30 | Soon after this , his name was put forward for the Jamaican Senate and he became a member , but although he attended regularly it was not something he took to . |