Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 2 | In April the garden was a jungle of bluebells , bursting from under the trees in blue tides above your ankles , but by midsummer my grandmother had it tame again , fifty yards of earth between wooden fences bearing docile rows of hollyhock and sweet peas ; an ex-army rug was spread on the shaven lawn for the children to sit on for tea outdoors . |
| 3 | C is also a difficult language unless you are planning to use it full time and certainly not something to indulge in for fun . |
| 4 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 5 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |
| 6 | The f the thing is if he needs to go in for treatment , he 's only going to get worse if he does n't get it . |
| 7 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 8 | You ought to go in for beauty comps , he said when he was winding up his film . |
| 9 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 10 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 11 | The application will take several months ( or longer ) to come on for hearing . |
| 12 | It 's a fact of life that if you 're in any way well known , then you 're going to come in for criticism . |
| 13 | And this Mr he was , he used to c he well he was collec calling f with Mr and he kept calling with me the same so I used to order my bulk in October to come in for Christmas goods . |
| 14 | Da says he 's going to come down for tea with — ’ |
| 15 | Lucy , um , I wondered if you 'd like to come over for dinner sometime , like tonight . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |
| 17 | let's ask him if he wants to come over for dinner cos we do n't have dinner until half four anyway |
| 18 | Although you may be able to fob off your opponent by letting them have a copy of your accounts ledger , you should not be in a position where you have to write off for copy receipts ; all these documents should be properly filed . |
| 19 | At 6 a.m. the mortar team started to drum up for breakfast . |
| 20 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 21 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 22 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 23 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 24 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Soon be able to come up for air . ’ |
| 27 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 28 | ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ was the first major van Gogh to come up for sale since ‘ Portrait du Dr Gachet ’ , executed 3–5 June 1890 , broke all auction house records by fetching $82.5 million ( £43.1 million ) at Christie 's New York in May 1990 . |
| 29 | This is the second unimpeachable Rembrandt painting to come up for sale in London this season , the first having been his ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ . |
| 30 | Depicting a muscular young man , naked and balancing on his left leg , it is thought to be more than 370 years old and the most significant example of Renaissance sculpture to come up for auction . |