Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 2 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 3 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 4 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 5 | You might think , having filled in a claim for US$110 for the missing items , that would be it . |
| 6 | She had n't filled in a card for Anna , but somehow it was too much trouble . |
| 7 | Kelly died on December 7 but had earlier filled in an appointment for December 8 . |
| 8 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 'm hoping you 'll agree to pass on a message for me to Minter . |
| 10 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 11 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 12 | Once these young people became achievers , both in keeping down a job for part of the week , and by acquiring skills relevant to the work , their self-esteem would be enhanced . |
| 13 | Send off the coupon for your free T. Shirt and sponsorship form . |
| 14 | Send off the coupon for your free T. Shirt and sponsorship form . |
| 15 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 16 | ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself . |
| 17 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 18 | She flashed him her most sacharine-sweet and blatantly insincere smile , mentally notching up a point for herself when irritation tightened his lips . |
| 19 | The entire ZTT organisation drew up a blueprint for world domination which was a product of the desire to change the pop star syndrome . |
| 20 | In 1956 Britain drew up a scheme for a free trade area of OEEC states , but it was not put forward until November and by then the work of the Six , to British surprise , had progressed well . |
| 21 | On July 4 the government drew up a budget for 1991 which was described officially as designed to curb inflation , reduce the budget deficit and maintain economic growth . |
| 22 | In August 1853 Britain , France , Austria and Prussia drew up a letter for despatch from the sultan to the tsar which gave Nicholas what he wanted . |
| 23 | Mr Browning drew up a chair for her , as nice as could be , and sat down himself . |
| 24 | Marshall drew up a chair for her . |
| 25 | He drew up a chair for Wycliffe and sat down himself . |
| 26 | The CCC also drew up a questionnaire for teachers in charge of subjects/heads of departments/heads of faculty to be completed in collaboration with other staff . |
| 27 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 28 | They ran the most influential party journals , drew up the agenda for party conferences and congresses , and spearheaded the internecine struggle in which the parties were involved . |
| 29 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 30 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |