Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 2 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 3 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 4 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 5 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 6 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 7 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 8 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 9 | River Island women 's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season . |
| 10 | Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) . |
| 11 | The Thames at Abingdon was barely fishable for the Mick 's Tackle Open with the bottom areas of the March length frozen over for the full 50 yard width . |
| 12 | There 's a rigourous routine of hard practice before the party from the Dragon School in Oxford head off for the African continent . |
| 13 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 14 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 15 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 16 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 17 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 18 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 19 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 20 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 21 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 22 | Customers signing up for the Electronic Interchange With Standard Edifact , EIWSE , service will receive their electronic phone billing into either the electronic mailbox or , if they have X400 service , directly into their computers , Raes said . |
| 23 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 24 | I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’ |
| 25 | The build up for the old firm game with Rangers went on for weeks . |
| 26 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 27 | As they finally leave the city and head out for the open road , Billy the Kid says , ‘ We made it , did n't we ? ’ |
| 28 | As a result of the rebellion in 1745 , there was no election in the burgh of Montrose , and indeed there may well have been no elections in a number of other burghs , but Montrose stands out for the following reason . |
| 29 | ‘ Rover stands out for the dogged determination with which its faced a world recession , for introducing an ever wider range of quality cars and for the spectacular success of Land Rover ’ |
| 30 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |