Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 2 | The policies of the Ministry of Finance were widely blamed both for peasant misery and for the threat to social stability which it entailed . |
| 3 | Moxon was eventually caught behind for 80 off Allan Warner . |
| 4 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 5 | Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time . |
| 6 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 7 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 8 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 9 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 10 | Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home . |
| 11 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 12 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 13 | ready boxed up for you |
| 14 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 15 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 16 | and people all turned sideways for the tourists , |
| 17 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 18 | For these cruel rituals the most wicked and depraved of ‘ Satan 's felines ’ were strongly preferred and all-black cats were eagerly sought out for the flames . |
| 19 | It presupposes that that is right that those boundaries have been rightly drawn essentially for all time . |
| 20 | He looked round all their sobered , pitying faces , and registered what was there to be registered , but it was not much ; nothing more than was due to any boy of sixteen , suddenly wiped out for no good reason . |
| 21 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 22 | Peloponnesian and Cretan sculptors work at first not in marble but in local limestones ; later sometimes in marble imported from the Cyclades , but the softer and more readily available stone is long used everywhere for building and for architectural sculpture . |
| 23 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 24 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 25 | And obviously they have their own priorities , so they do n't necessarily , they 're not necessarily geared up for that . |
| 26 | They have only played together for 45 minutes at international level , when Shearer scored on his debut against France nine months ago . |
| 27 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 28 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 29 | Senna then sliced past Berger to take third place and took second when the leading group all pulled in for pit-stops for new tyres between laps 29 and 34 . |
| 30 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |