Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the greater number of these works are on geological themes , he is most widely remembered for his far-reaching contributions to the early development of seismology , including his discovery in 1906 of the Earth 's core . |
| 2 | ‘ Julie , whoever those men are , whoever this Farrell is , they want something badly enough to kill for it . |
| 3 | The company said it could no longer afford the £320,000 membership fee and claimed open systems standards were widely enough accepted for it to leave . |
| 4 | Tomorrow she would work , she would finish the shoes belonging to Emily Grenfell in the morning and then in the afternoon she would sole the heavy boots that Cleg the Coal so badly needed for his round . |
| 5 | Music might be shit , but life itself is fully equipped to deliver magic if you stick around long enough to wait for it . |
| 6 | You will note that Mr. A. N. Other is a material holder in the company ; he is perhaps better known for his holding in Major Plc . |
| 7 | " I 'm sorry to have given you so much bother for nothing . " |
| 8 | When faced with one ‘ old boy type ’ executive' who on meeting her with a view to beginning an assignment declared that there was no place for women in his business , she announced that as he was obviously only looking for someone just like himself , he could do that better than she could . |
| 9 | You do n't really need to , but it 's , there usually is n't time to cover it , cos you 've got other things , but it gives you a much better feel for it if you , if you see the other side of the picture all the time . |
| 10 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 11 | As I earned only enough to pay for my childminder my father paid my train fares . |
| 12 | He wrote to Mary admitting the ‘ ardent attachment ’ he had so long felt for her , and asked her to confirm a rumour that she too was now engaged . |
| 13 | Such notions have driven the RAF Chedburgh Aviation Group ( Memorial Trust ) to establish a lasting memorial to those who worked and fought from the base , perhaps best remembered for its association with the Short Sterling . |
| 14 | He is perhaps best remembered for his book on the Dynamics of Faulting . |
| 15 | In his heyday Allison was involved with five Championship-winning sides worldwide and is perhaps best remembered for his Manchester City triumph in 1967–68 with the late Joe Mercer . |
| 16 | She is perhaps best known for her book South Riding which was based locally . |
| 17 | ‘ Dr Lambert is perhaps best known for his initiative in the First World War towards the production of respirators . |
| 18 | Perhaps best known for his feud with the Al-Fayed brothers over Harrods and the House of Fraser , Tiny Rowland built up his mining and trading company , Lonrho , in the '50s and '60s . |
| 19 | He 's perhaps best known for his love of livebearers — but the fishhouse holds a great many other species — some breeding projects , some pets , including a superb ‘ pair ’ of snakeheads , Derek 's new pride and joy . |
| 20 | Playwright John McKay , perhaps best known for his Channel 4 sitcom My Dead Dad , has written a neat , pacy story that combines humour and suspense with concise and colourful dialogue . |
| 21 | John Voight , the American film star , perhaps best known for his Oscar winning performance in Midnight Cowboy , is in Oxford for a couple of days . |
| 22 | They did do it , like you say it was more or less just covering for itself now and then use |
| 23 | Since then the Scots have perfected the art and , using the elements so generously provided for them by nature , distilled the whisky which today is inextricably woven into Scotland 's history , customs and culture . |
| 24 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 25 | Her wages only just paid for her expenses : now a taxi was a memory . |
| 26 | And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’ |
| 27 | Making love to me may help you to forget for a while , but it wo n't change the feelings you obviously still have for her , whether you care to admit it or not . ’ |
| 28 | Late at night , when he had drunk quantities of red wine to relax , Modi would begin to hum and sing , badly out of tune , Italian and Hebrew melodies , obviously still hankering for his home . |
| 29 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 30 | That uses a theme which Bizet much later cribbed for his L'Arlesienne music . |