Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 2 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 3 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 4 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 5 | I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself . |
| 6 | Had kept all of them just for the proud thrill of his in truth rather badly formed hand . |
| 7 | Its strengths are power and precision , but its not for the faint-hearted |
| 8 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 9 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 10 | The Butlins Empire has now had to market itself anew for the experienced package tourist ; a move from wooden chalets to brick-built country suites , from the Minehead Camp to Summerwest World . |
| 11 | Having all four styles comfortably within your repertoire thus equips you best for the total process of learning from experience . |
| 12 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography . |
| 14 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 15 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 16 | One up for the Phyllosan * set |
| 17 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 18 | There are some production hiccups that still need sorting and the setup should be better , but it 's generally well-built , highly individual to look at and I 'd recommend it to anybody just for the wonderful mixture of filth , jangle and clang that the pickups provide . |
| 19 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 20 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 21 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 22 | Yet the tax system is there precisely for the public benefit . |
| 23 | There was nothing here for the average tourist , nothing for my friends Jim and Mary , who go off every year on a package tour . |
| 24 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 25 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 26 | She , they should of put her in for the intermediate |
| 27 | You held her down for the other one . |
| 28 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 29 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 30 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |