Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle . |
| 2 | Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any , or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys . |
| 3 | She put two of the bags down for a rest , and used her free hand to push her dyed black hair back from her eyes . |
| 4 | You tell them can we just switch the phones off for a couple of minutes , no , no calls on are they ? |
| 5 | As for the UK situation , the Shipping Federation had plenty of free labour , while the union had no funds and would think itself fortunate if it could keep the men out for a week or two . |
| 6 | That was making the invoices out for the parcel . |
| 7 | Anyway , you get the afternoons off for a siesta . ’ |
| 8 | Much later , I came back in to help Wu clear up the debris and to take the puppies out for a walk . |
| 9 | However , unknown to me , a neighbour rang up after I left home this morning to invite the children round for the morning . |
| 10 | I was n't any better at this kind of messy shoot-out than they were , but I put a hole or two in the car 's windscreen , and put one of the soldiers out for the count . |
| 11 | Put the facts down for the specialist to see . |
| 12 | When they got back , having discovered only two , Mary Ann had the cards out for a game of canasta . |