Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a Hollywood man , used to having huge cranes going up and down for musicals . ’ |
| 2 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 3 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne could have jumped up and down for joy . |
| 5 | Up and down for Russell and me |
| 6 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 7 | She fucked him with enthusiasm , they laughed , they did it again and again — on and off for years . |
| 8 | They 've been going out on and off for years . ’ |
| 9 | My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . |
| 10 | She 'd known its cut and thrust on and off for years now . |
| 11 | The Election had been on and off for weeks now . |
| 12 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 13 | By 1990 there were twenty-eight million cardholders , mostly ‘ Barclaycards ’ and ‘ Access ’ cards , owned by the Midland , Lloyds , National Westminster and the Royal Bank of Scotland ( recently renamed ‘ Signet ’ and up for sale ) , but since a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation in 1989 , there are a whole lot more . |
| 14 | Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft . |
| 15 | And up for sale , the mental hospital that once described as a human zoo . |
| 16 | Coats on and out for bikes etc . |
| 17 | Warren Beatty was flitting in and out for visits , because his sister , Shirley MacLaine , was also there . |
| 18 | He said they are a nuisance sometimes keep coming in and out for stuff but he said that 's childlike . |
| 19 | payment of your travel costs to hospital and back for NHS treatment . |
| 20 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 21 | And back for Sunday tea , which was very little , usually bread and jam , but er sometimes a little bit of fruit , tin of fruit , rather a luxury , you know . |
| 22 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |
| 23 | Atco Qualcast , signalled as up for sale by BCI some two years ago , without takers , has been restructured at BCI 's expense by the very team now taking it over . |
| 24 | John Hayes , secretary general of the Law Society , said he regarded the entire matter as up for debate . |