Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 2 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 3 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 4 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 5 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 6 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 7 | Erm and so you can watch out for those the traps . |
| 8 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 9 | I said oh I feel I 'm going out for half an hour that 's all . |
| 10 | The fate laid up for such a man is revealed by the story of Alderman Reed of London , who , ‘ upon a disobedient stomach ’ , refused to pay and gave a bad example to his fellow citizens . |
| 11 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 12 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 13 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 14 | were n't buggered up for all the characters . |
| 15 | The crowd really get off on the Kitchens ' distinctly '80s sound , whooping like only Americans can , and calling out for all the correct songs — and then it dawns on you . |
| 16 | Applications to both the United States and Canada were filled out for all the members of the family except the oldest child , Eva . |
| 17 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 18 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 19 | The Yard said the area around the police station was sealed off for half an hour while the package was examined . |
| 20 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 21 | Writing on an LCD does n't come naturally , and even 5.5lbs is heavy to carry around for half a day . |
| 22 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 23 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 24 | One of the frustrations of being in opposition for so long to what is , in effect , a minority Government is having to watch this country go on for such a long time without any energy policy . |
| 25 | If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour — |
| 26 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 27 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 28 | send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something |
| 29 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 30 | Well anyway , I I 'll definitely go up for half a day a week you know . |