Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 2 | The rains carried on for Music at Oxford 's other major event , the Radley Fireworks . |
| 3 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 4 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
| 5 | School dragged on for month after month , year after year , with Rebecca Salmon going up to collect prize after prize on Speech Day . |
| 6 | Child suffers on for need of op |
| 7 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 8 | That was not done in this case and as a result this matter comes on for appeal with only three weeks of a two-and-a-half month order to run . |
| 9 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |
| 10 | The search is on for value for money , real or perceived , and food producers , processors and retailers at home and abroad are all after a share of your food pound . |
| 11 | Tragic family fights on for bear on grave |
| 12 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
| 13 | ‘ Uncle Jake says we 've to be down for breakfast in a quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 14 | Rural teachers melted away into the towns as their schools closed down for lack of pupils and funds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In some African francophone countries it is not unusual for government data-processing offices to close down for lack of paper . |
| 17 | An ancient priory is in danger of falling down for want of half a million pounds . |
| 18 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 19 | Horses often display these signs when asked to perform a difficult movement , and will be marked down for resistance in a dressage test . |
| 20 | After the logo 's dramatic unveiling on the stage of the New Athenaeum Theatre , there was a ripple of applause — and much muttering about the design , which may lose impact when it is scaled down for reproduction in newspapers and magazines . |
| 21 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 22 | Before sitting down for lunch at Claridge 's yesterday , she told me : ‘ Darling , I really could n't care . |
| 23 | But now it is one o'clock , and I , being only a volunteer , can step down for lunch without loss of face . |
| 24 | yeah , I 'd rather put down for acceptability of work pattern . |
| 25 | The master ordered the limitation issue to be set down for trial within 28 days , but it was not set down until ten months later . |
| 26 | After a few seconds of awkward introductions , Zohra excused herself with a promise to be down for cocoa at the usual time , then led Harry upstairs . |
| 27 | 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) . |
| 28 | From the water company stopcock , the service pipe runs underground ( buried at least 750mm down for protection against frost ) and enters the house . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) In this Order — ’ allotted day ’ means any day ( other than a Friday ) on which the Bill is put down as first Government Order of the day , provided that a Motion for allotting time to the proceedings on the Bill to be taken on that day either has been agreed on a previous day , or is set down for consideration on that day ; ’ the Bill ’ means the Local Government Finance Bill . |
| 30 | Any private business which has been set down for consideration at Seven o'clock on an allotted day shall , instead of being considered as provided by Standing Orders , be considered at the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bil on that day , and paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the private business for a period of three hours from the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bill or , if those proceedings are concluded before Ten o'clock , for a period equal to the time between Seven o'clock and the conclusion of those proceedings . |