Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 2 | But what a thing to happen so close from home when you 're on for winning the Open ! |
| 3 | he said he said what he 's gon na do is erm is he 's got his name down for buying a trailer for it as well |
| 4 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 7 | ‘ To turn you in for abducting a minor . ’ |
| 8 | Richard William Dunn , 39 , of Vine Street , was also bound over for obstructing a police constable . |
| 9 | THEY take the lead with a fine goal , concede two sloppy ones , and then the captain gets sent off for throwing a punch not even redeemed by the infliction of injury . |
| 10 | Hull were reduced to 12 men on the hour when Mark Jones was sent off for throwing a punch at Gary Tees . |
| 11 | I used to tell him off for riding a bike without a light — summonsed him in the end and he was fined about ten bob . |
| 12 | He took on a starring role in the Plough Lane Crazy Gang production and gained more notoriety when he was sent off for elbowing a village postman in a pre-season friendly on the Isle of Wight . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Tom then howled and snatched it back and the parents intervened to tell him off for making a noise and for snatching . |
| 15 | They started to fight about who had the most crayons and mother tried to intervene and tell them both off for making a noise . |
| 16 | They 'd delight in things like withholding the mail , or telling the cook off for making the food look too attractive or for giving people too much . |
| 17 | She told me off for doing the wrong colour there . |
| 18 | yet you probably put her off for putting the bet on cos you were |
| 19 | Anyway , Dadda owed him a day off for working the Spring Holiday Monday to get those Chippendale chair seats done . |
| 20 | My grandma told my father off for growing a beard . |
| 21 | And even now , as he never has time off for spending the twenty-something quid a week they 'll dish him for the one-hundred-and-twenty-hour stint he puts in most weeks , he could just afford a wife and kid . |
| 22 | Not satisfied with her cut from the sale of foreign cars , Elena also asserted her prerogative with regard to the distribution of the standard Romanian car , the Dacia 1300 , making party officials pay up for getting a car ahead of others in the queue ( which , as usual in Romania , seemed to grow ceaselessly ) . |
| 23 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 24 | A TEENAGER has been locked up for burgling the home of a mother-to-be . |
| 25 | ‘ Winning the ABA this year will make up for losing the chance of a lifetime of going to the Olympics , ’ said Calzaghe , 20 . |
| 26 | They require regular trimming to keep the growth thick at the butt ( how often one sees huge , bushy hedges with little greenery and gaping holes near the ground ) and should be allowed to grow up for relaying every ten to fifteen years . |
| 27 | No , I do n't think so , you 'll probably get , get had up for having a erm brothel |
| 28 | They 're not too worried about getting up for work the next day . |
| 29 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 30 | The wines to look out for include the ruby-red Agilanico del Vulture . |