Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 2 | Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life . |
| 3 | Did you not tell her that everyone dresses up for Willi 's party ? |
| 4 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 5 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 6 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 7 | This sounds like a beg for someone to come in for him and I reckon Wilko 's phone will soon be ringing and he is on the way out . |
| 8 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
| 9 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
| 10 | ‘ Have someone looking out for it , ’ ordered the Prince . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a food company which wants someone to dress up for an advertisement as a giant slice of ham with cheese and tomato between two halves of an enormous bun . ’ |
| 12 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 13 | Someone to speak up for the person or their carer as an ‘ advocate ’ . |
| 14 | Erlend , six years younger , needed someone to speak up for him , sometimes . |
| 15 | AST Research Inc 's agreement to buy Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing business will shoot the Irvine , California company up to fourth place in the US market ahead of Dell Computer Corp and behind Apple Computer Inc , IBM Corp and Compaq Computer Corp — but why should anyone want to buy a personal computer manufacturer — after all no-one came in for bankrupt Everex Systems Inc : the answer is that the deal includes full access to Tandy 's retail stores — AST will supply machines to be sold under the Tandy brand name ; the plant in Scotland is also an attraction . |
| 16 | Nobody passed by for a long time , and he could just hear the faint music in the distance . |
| 17 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 18 | And nobody turned up for it . |
| 19 | Now we need an optimistic accountant , can somebody look out for an optimistic accountant |
| 20 | and somebody said it was because since the stockmarket flopped people drew out and put the money in building societies , building societies were bursting at the seams , did n't want to , and banks as well , did n't know what to do with all this money , so , somebody went in for a loan and asked for fifty thousand and come out with a hundred thousand , they could n't get it out , give it to people , a lot , a lot of people that really er were n't safe gambles |
| 21 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
| 22 | We 've had somebody ringing up for their crossword puzzle , can we fill in the clue to that ? |
| 23 | In October and November the raids were taking place nearly every night , but in spite of the disturbed nights almost everyone turned up for work next day . |
| 24 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 25 | C is also a difficult language unless you are planning to use it full time and certainly not something to indulge in for fun . |
| 26 | Damn Sir Edmund Pusey — he probably knew more about it than he had let on , regarding it as better for my soul or something to find out for myself . |
| 27 | Is everything sorted out for the moment ? |
| 28 | There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public . |
| 29 | Be prepared to be the first one to stand up for what is right when something wrong is being done to or said about someone . |
| 30 | ‘ I know it 's feeble , Jess , and silly , but I 've never been one to stand up for my rights , so to speak . |