Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 2 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 3 | Before the right hon. Gentleman issues a denial , will he confirm that before the previous election the Tories said that they would continue to pay child benefit as before — only to freeze it immediately for three years when they took office ? |
| 4 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 5 | One woman had a friend who constantly let her down for appointments , a lunch , an evening out , by either not turning up , being very late or changing dates at the last minute . |
| 6 | Business can tell us they are unable to work with Labour , the City can hijack a Labour Government by sabotaging the economy , but they 'll only show themselves up for what they are a power-mad cartel with no regard for the British people . |
| 7 | All right I mean all right she did so that one of the guys would perhaps carry it around for you . |
| 8 | They only let us out for baths if there was enough staff , otherwise you had to have a strip wash . |
| 9 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 10 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 11 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd only loan him out for someone like you , Travis . |
| 13 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 14 | It 's very good quality , erm yeah , I think it 's , it 's it 's , the quality of it is good enough to put it up for , i in the sort of higher echelon of marks . |
| 15 | I 'm , I do n't but with this T G I they have got a manual for T G , T G I and it may be that the procedure for T G I only needs to reference that manual if that manual is and it may be that if B T need a similar thing they will obviously have one specifically for B T. |
| 16 | ‘ I think , ’ the policeman was saying , ‘ I 'd better take her in for a little talk . ’ |
| 17 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 18 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 19 | A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least . |
| 20 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 21 | In the absence of any other guidelines it is best to start the design of the artwork by defining the above factors , perhaps listing them out for reference . |
| 22 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 23 | Constantly putting yourself up for rejection just because you 're grown-up now wo n't help your self-esteem . |
| 24 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 25 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 26 | So Bennett was instructed to go to AM Sir John Slessor , Commander-in-Chief , Coastal Command , and literally fight it out for their share of the new 3cm H2S . |
| 27 | We ca n't accept these conditions for our employees so sign 'em up for the G M B and fight for their rights . |
| 28 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 29 | But when you want to heat the bedrooms up you ca n't , unless you only have it on for a bit you know . |
| 30 | The awesomely powerful heating and ventilation system makes another jet-like roar , but it works so well that you only need it on for short bursts . |