Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Crosby 's move for Wilson has been put on ice while Southampton dither over whether to come back in for Armstrong after having a £750,000 bid rejected . |
| 2 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 3 | It was the sort of thing Ezzie could carry on about for hours . |
| 4 | She jumped to her feet , looking wildly round for escape , but he stood directly between her and the door . |
| 5 | Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads . |
| 6 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 7 | Plan B meant no plan , however , and having none we were free to react to whims , needing no more than this first glimpse for the wheels to set themselves in motion as we set off down for tea . |
| 8 | An hour later we set off back for lunch , planning to bring back Penny in the evening when we 'd have another go with the rods and , of course , lift the nets . |
| 9 | ‘ This reserve , which is net after tax , is available to fall back on for dividends should player expenditure greatly exceed cup income in any year , ’ Mr Launders explained . |
| 10 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 11 | Towns go all out for City Challenge cash Multi-million pound City Challenge bids were sent off by hopeful Cleveland towns this week . |
| 12 | A senior Labour man told me that if the Tories win the General Election , Labour will go all out for PR , but if Labour win forget it . |
| 13 | She looked desperately around for Gabriel . |
| 14 | Arsenal should go back in for Thomas . |
| 15 | I looked woozily around for Mr and Mrs Gould but there was no sign of them . |
| 16 | I decided that the artwork would be painted in pieces ; the backgrounds on a single sheet and the rest in sections the same size with the artwork for close up details painted twice up for reduction . |
| 17 | A good guideline on how much memory to use up with stitch patterns and still leave enough over for techniques and so forth , is that three patterns of the maximum size of 15,840 bits will take 47,520 bits . |
| 18 | They only thing they could do was to go walk up to walk up a road to and contact the Evie bus but it did n't come down along for years and years . |
| 19 | Family puts home up for sale after pet cat is shot |
| 20 | Government has also been reluctant to act , as we illustrate later on for textiles , for fear of loss of jobs . |
| 21 | Disregarding this turn , the road for Altdorf continues straight on for 2km ( just over a mile ) . |
| 22 | Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry . |