Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 2 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
| 3 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |
| 4 | Pathfinders in Space obeyed all the ground rules Sydney Newman laid down for doing drama on Television . |
| 5 | What 's it to me if you and yer lady friend are goin' in for liftin' ? |
| 6 | You did n't have to go in for banging drums and shaking rattles to be a shaman ; you had simply to have suffered tremendously , been torn apart , come close to death . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you see , the thing is , there are very few people in our class or any group I 'm in [ O level ] that seem to go in for playing up the teachers , but I know that in some other classes there are . |
| 8 | The response to the questionnaire about training has been very satisfactory and it has provided the Training Committee with plenty of information to work on for planning future training programmes . |
| 9 | The Official Solicitor answered the call of the court within minutes and , although this application only came to the notice of the court officials at 1.30 p.m. it has come on for hearing just before 2 p.m. and now at 2.18 p.m . |
| 10 | When connected via the phono jacks , the signal level of these can be mixed in for playing along to some backing . |
| 11 | In the dying minutes Bradford had Lee Sinot send off for arguing , but by then Swindon were home and well almost dry . |
| 12 | The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time . |
| 13 | On one of them she was picked up for questioning by the Germans . |
| 14 | Campra stands out for keeping his airs relatively short , and for the expressive weight and dramatic emphasis he placed on recitative . |
| 15 | But the court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer 's money from fluctuations in interest rates , and ca n't be carried out for trading purposes . |
| 16 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 17 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 18 | Cicero , who had his head and hands cut off for recommending a return to republican principles , ruefully referred to Jupiter as ‘ the awful presence of the supreme mind ’ , perhaps foreshadowing Christian beliefs . |
| 19 | And all the , all they are er they constantly get done up for beating people up in pubs . |
| 20 | He had talked of going home for years ; yet excuses came up for delaying till next year and the year after . |
| 21 | Trading down helped the firm grab business from smaller operators and more than made up for falling sales of its classier Gainsborough furniture in the six months to end September . |
| 22 | ‘ Obviously they will not just be handed a job which is why a strategy is already mapped out for training and so on . ’ |
| 23 | There was a reasonable case to be made out for keeping her away from Nice . |
| 24 | I believe a good case could be made out for saying EITHER : |
| 25 | In 1579 court-messengers were condemned in Star Chamber to have their ears lopped off for stealing £3,000 from the Crown in seven years . |
| 26 | His friend remarked that , ‘ All sorts of people get run in for motoring offences . |
| 27 | Her youngest daughter seems to be going in for nannying . |
| 28 | Finally it is stored in oak casks , from where it is drawn off for blending . |
| 29 | ‘ Time and again , they said things like : ‘ I ca n't tell my Mum because she would n't believe me ’ or ‘ I told another teacher but I just got told off for telling lies ’ . |
| 30 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |