Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a look round for the fag packet , but it 's gone . |
| 2 | It 's not no y you using a you put a boiler in for a purpose , is to heat your water up in n it ? |
| 3 | It 's it is a nationwide survey on spoken English erm there 's a somebody approached me today and said would I carry a tape around for a week and record people talking . |
| 4 | And made a gallery round for the Sunday school . |
| 5 | Techno music is illegal on the Isle Of Man , where there is a warrant out for the arrest of many top stars including Kraftwerk , Joey Beltram , Inner City and , due to a technical error , Ned 's Atomic Dustbin . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a warrant out for the arrest of Michael Green . ’ |
| 7 | When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral . |
| 8 | The situation was touched with sadness ( the trip was ostensibly a day out for the girl , thus implying the limitations of her life 's experience ) and the photographs of the girl snatched by an opportunist art student for later exhibition had more to do with the exploitation of human life by art than with mental handicap . |
| 9 | We are misled time after time after time when people have problems like they 're having their vehicle serviced , it 's put a claim in for a water pump , and have the cost of their service paid for . |
| 10 | In for a penny in for a pound ! |
| 11 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
| 12 | The second annual dinner at Henley College was again a sell- out for the Thames Valley Branch , with over 50 member sand guests enjoying another excellent evening . |
| 13 | That would be a turn up for the books , would n't it , if my uncle married your foster sister ? ’ |
| 14 | but my instructions were that what the deputy ordered , and I used to make a book up for the yardmen to prepare these . |
| 15 | Putting a hand out for the clock , she found it was only a quarter to eight . |
| 16 | St Helens prop Kevin Ward is struggling to be fit for Sunday 's Regal Trophy first round tie against Leeds at Knowsley Road because of a neck injury , but New Zealander George Mann could return to the pack after a being out for a month with back trouble . |
| 17 | And yet 15 or 20 years ago he would still be playing non-League stuff and carrying a hod around for a living . |
| 18 | ‘ Yeah , to a large degree I still scoop a lot out for the rhythm sound , but for lead I add a bit of mid . |
| 19 | This could be a way out for a couple unable to have children because of the wife 's inability to bear a child . |
| 20 | Letter : A way out for the elephants |
| 21 | ‘ Now 's the time to nail my colours to the mast , throw away the scabbard , buckle to , go the whole hog , cross the Rubicon , grab the bull by the horns , put my shoulder to the wheel and leave a note out for the milkman . ’ |
| 22 | Now , finally , a new order seems to be emerging , for which a big debt of gratitude is owed to Donovan Razor Ruddock and Britain 's Lennox Lewis for daring to have a face off for the chance to get a title shot . |
| 23 | Failing to see this masked sign , a family out for a drive goes on to the crossing at the very same moment as a rare Leopold 's Toad , and runs it over . |
| 24 | To qualify to play Karpov , Short had to beat Boris Gelfand , another product of the Soviet school , who refused to allow Praedrag Nikolic of Yugoslavia , his previous opponent , a time out for a family funeral . |