Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 2 | Senna then sliced past Berger to take third place and took second when the leading group all pulled in for pit-stops for new tyres between laps 29 and 34 . |
| 3 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 4 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 5 | Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile . |
| 6 | The grand style of landscaped gardens with carefully planned borders and regimented bedding plants ‘ like soldiers all lined up for attention ’ is not for her . |
| 7 | The muted stripes can be worked with any quantity of yarn making up the total , just add in the colours where you will , provided you have enough left over for borders . |
| 8 | They found , however , that this relationship only held up for workers in small-town settings . |
| 9 | We went properly turned out for Sunday service . |
| 10 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 11 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 12 | So no voter who gave Craig a second preference could be sure that it would actually be registered , for his paper could be one of the 3,813 — 1,476 = 2,337 that were not picked out for transfer . |
| 13 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 14 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 15 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 16 | Both cars are supported in proper metal slings , and while a safety gear is provided under each , this is not connected up for operation owing to the small size of the model . |
| 17 | Peter endowed the occasion with an atmosphere of reconciliation : the fact that he and Kate were together somehow made up for Abbotsfield ; there was no longer any need to feel guilty . |
| 18 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 19 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 20 | The opening fourteen chapters of Scale 1 provide a context of definitions for Hilton 's particular address to a recluse asking advice on the contemplative life which , in the first chapter , he acknowledges to be a demanding process : Although in defining active and contemplative life Hilton makes it clear that contemplative life belongs especially he , characteristically , makes it clear that it is not ruled out for actives . |
| 21 | All your enthusiasm vanishes ; not only have you not been able to ‘ do ’ it , but you are now convinced you are not cut out for mathematics teaching at all and none of your pupils could produce anything like that . |
| 22 | You know , I suspect I 'm not cut out for brothels . |
| 23 | She was not cut out for subterfuge . |
| 24 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 25 | He 's just popped out for supplies . |
| 26 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 27 | The item was keenly competed for by two telephone bidders but it was finally knocked down for £790 to a bidder in the saleroom . |
| 28 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |
| 29 | Your article on the problems of foreign-owned stockbrokers in Tokyo ( ‘ Gaijin , gaijin , gone ’ , December 22nd ) has caused considerable offence within Barclays and has quite unfairly and incorrectly singled out for attack one of our middle managers , Michael Tomalin . |
| 30 | However , it was not sent out for review until mid-September , Jones receiving it on the 20th . |