Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pupils at the £3,465-a-term school , boys and girls aged 16 and over , are to be interviewed by police at their homes as the school has broken up for Easter . |
| 2 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 3 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism . |
| 5 | She 's established herself as a writer with award winning novels including ’ I 'm the King of the Castle ’ and ’ Woman in Black ’ but Mrs de Winter has come in for criticism . |
| 6 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
| 7 | Defence policy , too , has come in for complaint . |
| 8 | ‘ Take a look behind , nephew , ’ came the answer , ‘ and you will see that already the litter carrying the prince has turned off for Westminster ! ’ |
| 9 | The new road has opened up for motorists an area hitherto out of bounds . |
| 10 | has drawn up for sign language is this sort of flow chart er , with dates and things working backwards from the event , saying you know we need this by two weeks beforehand we need it back |
| 11 | If British tennis is to ever rise above the mediocrity that it has wallowed in for decades , then juniors have to be given greater access to courts and coaching . |
| 12 | Debate on Southcom 's future , which has dragged on for years , was put on hold when American relations with General Noriega reached rock-bottom . |
| 13 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 14 | They are fed on drugs and despatched by their master with golden daggers to kill whomever he has marked down for destruction . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , well , when one has spoken out for freedom against dictatorship there are other people gunning for one . |
| 16 | MY Mont Blanc fountain pen is en panne and has gone in for repairs . |
| 17 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm so glad everything has worked out for Ernest and Rosie , ’ said Ruth . |
| 19 | I 've asked them as well and this might take them into the second week er to start with their pupils process on a Wednesday morning whereby in each classroom there would be a me master year plan even if it means they have to buy four and divide it up but I su I suggest that I would do something , you know , produce one and on that they will write pertinent to the the form to the form er and continue to add on that over , you know as and when it 's relevant er , dates for completion of course work , it might be module testing etcetera and I 'm going to ask at briefing that any anything that a teacher has put down for children , it might be just you know Mi Mr x's group is mentioned at briefing so they can write down what 's pertinent to them and therefore |
| 20 | Richard Dunwoody has signed up for Martin Pipe … young irishman Adrian Maguire is the new man … they should have 80 horses in training soon … |
| 21 | Kee pulled off another brilliant save and United hung on for victory . |
| 22 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 23 | Obviously he 'd gone out for cigarettes , or lunch — or perhaps — it was a sudden exciting hope — he was upstairs in John 's room , waiting for me there . |
| 24 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 25 | You 're well-matched with Doreen , who was ready to kick an old lady out of the home she 'd lived in for years . ’ |
| 26 | And er course we went about three weeks before that then we got invited over for tea . |
| 27 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 28 | Getting geared up for Microsoft 's Windows NT , Inmark Development Mountain View , California , has announced an NT version of its zApp C++ Application Framework . |
| 29 | He , too , was quiet during the drive back , but as he pulled in outside her flat he said thoughtfully , as if they were continuing a conversation , ‘ Of course , some guys get invited up for coffee . ’ |
| 30 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |