Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris said , she said well she didnae mind going down for it . |
| 2 | In Darlington , 99 fitness fans have signed up for Swimathon ‘ 92 which takes place at the Dolphin Centre at 5.30 pm tomorrow . |
| 3 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 4 | According to CUP , the trade in the UK and Ireland has been ‘ magnificently supportive ’ , with almost 200 window displays of the Oxford Cambridge Book Race design , and entries have flooded in for the competition to win a holiday in Pompeii . |
| 5 | Psychic phenomena seemed to cry out for , and lend themselves to , scientific investigation . |
| 6 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 7 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 8 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 9 | It was based on the construction of a questionnaire , the Parental Attitude Research Inventory ( PARI ) , in which parents were asked to indicate their agreement with such statements as ‘ A child will be grateful later on for strict training , ’ and ‘ Children should realize how much parents have to give up for them . ’ |
| 10 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 11 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 12 | With freight costs tending sharply upwards , many crude-oil buyers began to shop around for discounts : despite formal OPEC condemnation of breaches of price discipline , such buyers were not always disappointed . |
| 13 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 14 | Officials warned to look out for banned runner |
| 15 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 16 | COUNTLESS hours of studying over the past six years have paid off for a Barlaston engineering technician — in the form of an Open University degree . |
| 17 | But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time . |
| 18 | I mean if Glasgow breaks down for I mean if the pros get called out for two weeks it 's not gon na make a big deal of difference at Norwich . |
| 19 | Giants set to sign up for showdown |
| 20 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 21 | Things started to look up for me . |
| 22 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 23 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 24 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 25 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 26 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 27 | But he admits : ‘ I could never have envisaged the the way things have worked out for me . ’ |
| 28 | And Flanagan , a close friend of Best , added : ‘ I am delighted at the way things have worked out for Nigel — because the fans do n't realise how much pressure he was under when he took the job . |
| 29 | The memories I like to remember is er when things have worked out for children and they 've gone back home and if they have n't gone back home , then they 've moved on er to nice adoptive families . |
| 30 | For instance , the beginning could be ‘ It was a nice sunny day and all the fishes decided to go out for a swim . |