Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] 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 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
6 | She , they should of put her in for the intermediate |
7 | You held her down for the other one . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
10 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
11 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
12 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
13 | The relative value of doing so measured against the cost of the associated hard and software , however , rules it out for the present time at least . |
14 | But it was left to Oxford Hawks in the gold shirts and Gloucester City in the red to battle it out for the minor places in a Central South derby . |
15 | WOOD GROUP Haven Engineering , met Sony [ UK ] Projects Department , on 29 April to battle it out for the recently-established Wood Group Haven v Sony [ UK ] Snooker challenge cup , at the Snooker Centre , Bridgend . |
16 | My local electronics dealer tells me he is confident that there will be GPS under £1,000 within six months and then the real price war will begin as the manufacturer battle it out for the lucrative yacht market . |
17 | The two head office teams battled it out for the top spot , but it was no surprise to see , a Bolton Sailing Club member along with his father , steer his craft over the line first . |
18 | I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy . |
19 | A 1–0 result that should settle us down for the coming weeks especially with Liverpool and Arsenal back to back . |
20 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |