Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year .
2 ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’
3 ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy .
4 Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 .
5 Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up .
6 This extends to his judicious choice of tempi which thankfully avoids the ‘ brakes on for the big melodies ’ approach , which in some versions comes close to collapsing the entire edifice under its own emotional weight .
7 He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time .
8 The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house .
9 It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time .
10 Further up the line Graham will call Wright in for the one-to-one .
11 On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it .
12 Eyes down for a full house and a long run .
13 Eyes down for a full house .
14 The world 's No. 1 batsman , according to the ratings , was two days into his 40th year , and had once again set his side up for a further victory to help blot out the misery of 1987–89 .
15 Turn on to a side for the next quarter , then the other side and breast side up for the final cooking time , removing the foil .
16 On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken .
17 Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns .
18 If they do not give an answer , will my hon. Friend take the Leader of the Opposition out for an Italian meal ?
19 We called Lucy out for the Grand Inspection .
20 Sir James pushes the boat out for a double celebration
21 But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read .
22 When he cast his eyes around for the one place that seemed , for a man of business , the least affected by the tumult of war , the shrewd Samuel decided on Tangier .
23 If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on .
24 It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions .
25 As I see it , you get your bills in for a certain amount and you 've got to pay it .
26 If Baldwin met Parliament , Lloyd George might keep the Conservatives in for a few weeks to humiliate them .
27 LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night .
28 But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months .
29 He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club .
30 He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ .
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