Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting on for 50% of the money spent on advertising goes into television , and more like 70% in big agencies . |
| 2 | She had on that special queasy-bright look women like her put on for girls of my age . |
| 3 | Child suffers on for need of op |
| 4 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 5 | This improvement was substantial : from slightly worse than myopic on the first attempt , the average improved to getting on for 40% of the difference between the optimal and the myopic on the second . |
| 6 | Contact on for details of your nearest Redken appointed salon . |
| 7 | Rural teachers melted away into the towns as their schools closed down for lack of pupils and funds . |
| 8 | Panorama will enable users to keep windows open and processes going off-screen that would otherwise have to be closed down for lack of space . |
| 9 | In some African francophone countries it is not unusual for government data-processing offices to close down for lack of paper . |
| 10 | An ancient priory is in danger of falling down for want of half a million pounds . |
| 11 | yeah , I 'd rather put down for acceptability of work pattern . |
| 12 | Roseanne Barr would make a great Liz during her older , fatter days but could have trouble slimming down for scenes of a 60-year-old Liz in her more glamorous days . |
| 13 | This is quite a long way down for coins of this period and it would explain why I was n't finding anything earlier . |
| 14 | I felt totally drawn into the piece as I recognised struggled I 've had with my own mother and my feelings of shame , and fear , talking about sex — the terrible silence that develops which no one attempts to break down for fear of the pain ‘ that ‘ conversation would bring ’ . |
| 15 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 16 | The request was turned down for fear of creating a traffic hazard as Joseph Pease 's statue later did . |
| 17 | The heavy Roman-emperor head with thinnish iron-grey hair brushed forward , the nose , broad and fleshy , and the mouth fallen in for lack of teeth , was not a comely picture . |
| 18 | You can ask your employee to fill this in for absences of between four and seven days . |
| 19 | Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things . |
| 20 | He has lots of ‘ budgie ’ pals dropping in for cups of tea and chats . |
| 21 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |
| 22 | There was no rest for the wicked as John Gribbin told New Scientist 's readers that the results of a Chinese study of the alignment of the planets meant we were in for years of terrible weather . |
| 23 | I , I , I think this must be the hardest business to plan around in the market place Peter , because at the end of the day you 're chasing business , you , you 're looking for business and if I 've got an account , I 'll be honest with you , if I 've got an account tomorrow or , that rings in and it 's in for sort of Friday , yes , and that should be there , and I 'm out of the area Friday , I 'll go across and get that business , I 'd go out of my area and get that business , |
| 24 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 25 | So it will have to be in for Thursday of that week , so you 've got another couple of days in that first week back . |
| 26 | BBC 2 broadcast the cases of 10 prisoners of conscience between 25 November and 8 December 1991 , and asked viewers to phone or write in for details of how to help them . |
| 27 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 28 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |
| 29 | I would guess that he originally came over for morale of the troops . |
| 30 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |