Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | onto the sand here in Bay and then there seven site or plod laid off for every plougher that was there you see ? |
| 2 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 3 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 4 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 5 | I 've looked everywhere for a weapon , but there 's nothing of any use , even if I had the strength and skill . |
| 6 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 7 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 8 | I 've settled now for a sort of uniform during the day of a skirt , silk shirt and a jacket , with a three-quarter length cashmere coat over it in winter . |
| 9 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 10 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 11 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 12 | Anyway , I 've finished here for the present . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 14 | I 've worked only for the common good , humbly trying to advance knowledge … ’ |
| 15 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 16 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 17 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 18 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 19 | We 've put in for the club entry and we 're just waiting to hear , you know , if we 've been lucky or not . |
| 20 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 21 | I 've radioed in for the Social Services , they 'll find them some alternative accommodation . |
| 22 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 23 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 24 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 25 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 26 | But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time . |
| 27 | College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day strike and a total ban on flexible working over pay , the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education announced yesterday . |
| 28 | Outsiders have looked hard for an arrangement for the southern Slavs . |
| 29 | Many of Britain 's leading composers have written especially for the ensemble , including the University 's own lecturers in composition , John Joubert , John Casken and Jonty Harrison . |
| 30 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |