Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 2 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 3 | I keep them on for the programme . |
| 4 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 5 | I 'll have a bath an' all an' my brither-in-law 'll see me right for the gear . ’ |
| 6 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 7 | Most varieties supplied by garden centres grow a little too large to make ideal houseplants if you just take them in for the winter , but many dwarf and miniature types are ideal for deep sunny windowsills . |
| 8 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 9 | Sat them in for the whole of the break and one group of her , hers I think . |
| 10 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 11 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 12 | Once all the for the rth generation have been determined , we can write them down for the ( r+1 ) th generation using ( 8.3 ) . |
| 13 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 14 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 15 | It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation . |
| 16 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 17 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 18 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 20 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 21 | Did he live with me only for the sake of appearances , perhaps ? |
| 22 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 23 | If I buy some carpets fitting or do I extra for the fitting ? |
| 24 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |
| 25 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 26 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 27 | New Zealands should be brushed off , hosed down and dried before you put them away for the summer . |
| 28 | ‘ I realise the European Tour will not be too happy but I blame them anyway for the clash of dates , ’ Faldo said . |
| 29 | Had kept all of them just for the proud thrill of his in truth rather badly formed hand . |
| 30 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |