Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser .
2 The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects .
3 What about if T goes on for about erm one second , when it 's going to be equal to V M one minus E to the minus one .
4 You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption .
5 However , Karen 's quick intelligence and enthusiasm make up for any problems caused by her disability , and Janet says , she 's a big asset to the salon .
6 Pathfinders in Space obeyed all the ground rules Sydney Newman laid down for doing drama on Television .
7 ‘ Do you want the cheque made out for cash ? ’
8 You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself .
9 In such a context the interests of the State must in my judgment mean the interests of the State according to the policies laid down for it by its recognised organs of government and authority , the policies of the State as they are , not as they ought , in the opinion of a jury , to be .
10 The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more .
11 As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) .
12 Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English .
13 Sometimes it is hard to love a rebellious and rude teenager , to endure the appalling racket of pop music , to cope with disobedience and flagrant disregard of rules laid down for family life .
14 The team will play to the rules laid down for the 1992 World Cup .
15 I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’
16 Well A Alison goes out for one evening so that means I have to get back early for that evening
17 It would take the easy way and go for the baited foot laid out for it …
18 TRAINER John Gosden made up for Brier Creek 's narrow Ebor defeat when Badawi took the Andy Capp Handicap at York yesterday , writes Carles Fawcus .
19 The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay .
20 PROFITS reached an all time high for the Food & Agriculture Division announced by for the year ending December 31 , 1992 .
21 William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War .
22 Children and church helpers spent Saturday afternoon making certain there were enough traditional Mothering Sunday posies to go round for mothers of all ages .
23 It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity .
24 I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so .
25 To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening .
26 Le Tissier made up for his earlier error after 72 minutes when he crashed home a 30-yard a left-foot volley but his team could find no way back .
27 The judges will hear arguments next month and make their rulings , with luck , before Germany shuts down for August .
28 The government thereby gave up the attempt to impose a solution and admitted that the people of Northern Ireland must be given an opportunity to work out for themselves how they should be governed .
29 Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football .
30 One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea .
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