Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 2 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 3 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 4 | Had kept all of them just for the proud thrill of his in truth rather badly formed hand . |
| 5 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 6 | Having all four styles comfortably within your repertoire thus equips you best for the total process of learning from experience . |
| 7 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography . |
| 9 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 10 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 11 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 12 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 13 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 14 | She , they should of put her in for the intermediate |
| 15 | You held her down for the other one . |
| 16 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 17 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 18 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |
| 19 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |
| 20 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 21 | She wrote , The Love and Lives of the She Devil , and she 's written it , she wrote it especially for The Orange Tree Theatre about ten years ago , and now she 's re-doing it , |
| 22 | The Goblin King , Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain , infamous old Goblin Warlord and Lord of the Crags , was suddenly and unexpectedly struck by what could have been a big rock were it not for the sploshy red stuff that exploded from it , showering the goblin horde . |
| 23 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 24 | The contest , owing to the tiger 's height , colouring , and ability to move without making a sound , would be very unequal were it not for the wind-factor operating in favour of the sportsman . |
| 25 | But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered . |
| 26 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 28 | Certainly in Light ( 1857 ) [ 1843 – 60 ] All ER Rep 934 , the accused was guilty of an assault when he said : " Were it not for the bloody policeman outside , I would split your head open . " |
| 29 | Few farm workers leave the land because they dislike the job itself ; on the contrary many would return were it not for the poor pay and prospects . |
| 30 | It would be easy to put this 1814 statement down to the cowardice of a middle-aged civil servant ashamed of his youthful indiscretion , were it not for the amazing passage which follows . |