Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOM Courtenay fidgets in the chair , runs his fingers through hair grown long for his new stage role and chooses his words carefully before answering any question . |
| 2 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 3 | A new branch of literature developed just for radio . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll of course stay here for as long as you like . |
| 5 | JFK : The Director 's Cut still starring Kevin Costner , of course runs now for a weighty 200 minutes and includes whole scenes axed from the cinema version . |
| 6 | Although the flight of the U2 spy plane and the debacle of the summit the following year were to put everybody back on guard once more , there were some moments at the end of the Fifties when the fog of ideology cleared enough for realism to creep in . |
| 7 | The cash would come from the pool of money set aside for such incidents . |
| 8 | There 's nothing unusual about clogged up roads in London , but this was the school half-term holidays — usually a haven of relatively clear tarmac , a glorious window of opportunity to leave home for the office a quarter of an hour later . |
| 9 | A Plan of Action drawn up for the conference was estimated to cost between US$4,000 million and $6,000 million . |
| 10 | Radiance Strathdee , the author of research carried out for Centrepoint , said this was not enough : ‘ There is a need for the government to get round the table with local authorities , not to lay down guidance , but to look at strategies to set about moving the impasse which exists ’ . |
| 11 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 12 | ( It is worth noting in passing that a similar kind of question comes up for dancers as well as singers . |
| 13 | This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction . |
| 14 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 15 | The board of inquiry called yesterday for a full and open judicial inquiry into the alleged activities of the death squad , noting that the present McNally investigation was an inter-departmental inquiry behind closed doors . |
| 16 | ‘ But I thought we did n't have a lot of cash left over for publicity ? ’ |
| 17 | The other type of shop to look out for is one described as a ‘ bathroom centre ’ or ‘ kitchen specialist ’ . |
| 18 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 19 | Now this unnatural form of presentation works well for surprise and suspense . |
| 20 | AI considers him to be a prisoner of conscience held solely for his non-violent opposition to the government of the former Yemen Arab Republic . |
| 21 | AI believes that the nuns from Shungsep nunnery are prisoners of conscience imprisoned solely for the peaceful advocacy of their political views . |
| 22 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 23 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 24 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 25 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 26 | Oh Mark Tad has lost , a lot of ground to make up for Britain |
| 27 | Also , an expansion in the level of demand occurred particularly for steel rails within a market well protected by tariffs from the effects of foreign competition . |
| 28 | The gesture of rejection pleads mutely for forebearance . |
| 29 | She delights particularly in this dominance of architecture over furnishing , ‘ a piece of space enclosed simply for the sake of beautiful outline ’ , so that the small dining-table appears as ‘ an odd and insignificant accident ’ . |
| 30 | The status of royalty comes in for summary treatment when one candidate for the throne of Evallonia , offered the support of the young revolutionaries , declines the honour . |