Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see when Jane Pargeter told me , I suddenly looked round for Nicola at the party . |
| 2 | His kisses were deep and cherishing and hungry , and it was a long time before they eventually came up for air . |
| 3 | They just went out for dinner , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 4 | We just went out for days and that really last week . |
| 5 | She soon set off for Leicester , where she sobbed ‘ hideously ’ and was put in prison with two unlucky fellow-pilgrims . |
| 6 | The Range Rover was crammed with so much food as they finally set off for Brides Haven that Leonora expressed doubt that the boat would carry it all . |
| 7 | Miranda hardly ever got up for breakfast at the weekends , but on Miles ' first morning she appeared punctually at half past eight . |
| 8 | ‘ Eventually , I wrote a note and put it through the letter box saying we would love to buy the house if it ever came up for sale . ’ |
| 9 | In spite of the fall , the Government still came in for criticism from opposition parties and trade union leaders , who pointed out that the total was still higher than this time last year . |
| 10 | When kept under conditions of constant light and temperature , they still turned up for meals at regular intervals . |
| 11 | Noreen stood back , biting her lip to watch , as the applause still rang out for Maria . |
| 12 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 13 | Mum always stood up for Liza , her longtime favourite , telling Dad she had enough sense to know what was right and wrong , but I doubted she did . |
| 14 | The current practice of retaining on-farm woodland temporarily fenced out for regeneration purposes ( up to 15 years ) in the assessment of farm hectarage for HLCA payment calculations should remain . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Defence 's own research establishments also came in for criticism for playing too great a role in specifying , designing and managing defence projects . |
| 16 | The mill pond also came in for attention and was thoroughly dredged , and the dam , tunnels , gates and wheel repaired . |
| 17 | While criticising the " too tenacious traditions of a unitarian state " , he also singled out for criticism individual regional leaders whom he accused of adopting laws at variance with those of the Russian Federation ( RF ) . |
| 18 | I would guess that he originally came over for morale of the troops . |
| 19 | Of course the proposals of the Beveridge report also now came in for mention . |
| 20 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ Finnan went on , ‘ seeing your company so finely decked out for travelling , if you were by any chance headed the same way ? ’ |
| 21 | I really cried out for God 's help , and my baby answered it . |
| 22 | Fred Workman shared a room with Harold Davies , an older Englishman who was Chief Reporter and who often sat in for Fred as Editor . |
| 23 | The Gulf War may have been responsible for the postponement of the finals of the Head/Isrotel/Tennis World tournament , which were due to be staged at the end of 1990 , for one year , but it certainly did n't dampen the enjoyment of the 12 regional winners who eventually took off for Eliat at the end of November 1991 . |
| 24 | She was tiring of the steak and chips which she regularly served up for Len 's evening meal . |
| 25 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
| 26 | He immediately set off for Germany in a van and the rest is history . |
| 27 | Bates trailed 3–0 in the final set against Black , his doubles partner this week , and went to the front for the first time in the match when he broke for 6–5 and then served out for victory . |
| 28 | Many firms — when else but at the peak of the property rush ? — then signed up for plush , atriumed premises to house their new recruits . |
| 29 | I then went off for lunch which was soup and crayfish . |
| 30 | The butler then went in for breeding dogs which he kept in large wire enclosures . |