Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well to tell you the truth , I went to own school , when it was er winter , when it comes the winter , they bate somewhere for the winter , do you see ? |
| 2 | Sit down for a minute . |
| 3 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 4 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 5 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 6 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 7 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 8 | Here — ’ he shoved some gear off the wooden slats of the cockpit , ‘ sit down for a bit . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 10 | Sit down for a minute , he 's gon na be a minute . |
| 11 | No sorry it 's mummy 's fault , she pulled the wrong one , that 's it , good girl , I 'll er brush your hair in a minute , get all your knots out , right , sit down for a minute , well turn round , there |
| 12 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 13 | Colleagues are impressed ( and sometimes alarmed ) by her willingness to link large philosophical issues with day to day matters ; for example , high state expenditure and taxation mean less for the ordinary citizens to spend as they choose . |
| 14 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 15 | Take 1 hour to bring the solution slowly to simmering point , simmer gently for a further hour . |
| 16 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 17 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 18 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 19 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 20 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 21 | Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers . |
| 22 | Only a short while later these were accused ( by Schiller amongst others ) of being not worthy of him - ‘ Fit only for the nursery , to use in connection with Noah 's Ark ’ — but the truth is they are irresistible . |
| 23 | The village was too peopled by women , fit only for the baking of cakes and arranging tombola stalls . |
| 24 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 25 | See how , sometimes , the largest fish will hover at the tail-end of the shoal , while his tasters — or so it seems — accept almost every likely-looking morsel , only to leave some morsels alone as though there was something special about them , and fit only for the King . |
| 26 | The whole place looks dead and deserted , a ruin fit only for the dead and carrion birds … |
| 27 | ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’ |
| 28 | Tossed between them like a broken toy fit only for the dustbin . |
| 29 | That two dozen of these interiors are in buildings statutorily ‘ listed ’ for their special architectural or historic interest say much for the low regard paid to pubs in the exercise of listed building control and indeed for the listing process itself . |
| 30 | It does not , however , say much for the Worcestershire industries that , apart from salt , cloth making was the only one noticed by Leland , although it was unimportant except in Worcester and towns like Kidderminster , where there were swarms of poor artificers , and Bromsgrove . |