Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well to tell you the truth , I went to own school , when it was er winter , when it comes the winter , they bate somewhere for the winter , do you see ?
2 There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE .
3 See how , sometimes , the largest fish will hover at the tail-end of the shoal , while his tasters — or so it seems — accept almost every likely-looking morsel , only to leave some morsels alone as though there was something special about them , and fit only for the King .
4 Only a short while later these were accused ( by Schiller amongst others ) of being not worthy of him - ‘ Fit only for the nursery , to use in connection with Noah 's Ark ’ — but the truth is they are irresistible .
5 The village was too peopled by women , fit only for the baking of cakes and arranging tombola stalls .
6 ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’
7 Tossed between them like a broken toy fit only for the dustbin .
8 It does not , however , say much for the Worcestershire industries that , apart from salt , cloth making was the only one noticed by Leland , although it was unimportant except in Worcester and towns like Kidderminster , where there were swarms of poor artificers , and Bromsgrove .
9 Newcomers concentrate on the winemaking and the flower arrangements , while locals head single-mindedly for the beer tent and the equally serious business of the vegetable show , a forum in which husbandry skill is still subject to public competition .
10 We apologise unreservedly for the offence caused by the reported remarks and give every assurance that we will continue to work positively with the community . ’
11 → Of course we apologise unreservedly for the error contained in Tony Iommi 's interview .
12 Too many people do not think about where would be best to sail and invariably head straight for the coast in an effort to make progress .
13 They fly here for the winter . ’
14 Bands like Curve and the Sundays float careers on their female vocalists ' cheekbones , playing down their looks even as they pose bashfully for the cover of yet another music magazine .
15 Significantly Fëanor learns not from Manwë , nor Ulmo , but from Aulé , the smith of the Valar and the most similar of them to Melkor ; Aulé too is responsible for the despatch of Saruman to Middle-earth , see UT , p. 393 ; Aulë is the patron of all craftsmen , including ‘ those that make not , but seek only for the understanding of what is ’ — the philologists , one might say , but also the scopas , the ‘ makars ’ , the fabbri , the poets .
16 He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up .
17 I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea .
18 In East Sussex , which has yet to appoint care managers , assistant director Jim Graham reckons there will be some concerns about the types of job descriptions put together for the job .
19 Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line .
20 It 's also great for families : ‘ Minders ’ give younger children their own holiday while parents sail away for the day .
21 On the contrary , the Skein of Geese was exactly as Heather had photographed it , save only that the trees behind it had been stripped of their leaves and the croquet hoops put away for the winter .
22 As for our music sessions and lessons , they went on intermittently for several years until eventually the drums were abandoned , put away for the sake of both higher education and marriage .
23 Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it ?
24 Advertisements similarly depend increasingly for the understanding and appreciation of the " joke " on the reader 's knowledge of other aspects of culture , frames of reference , texts .
25 When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night .
26 A search for discrepancies was agreed to be the best avenue of research and one of the more convincing arguments put forward for the work not to be genuine was that the Kouros combines stylistic elements that run from early to late sixth century BC .
27 In particular it was one of the arguments put forward for the abolition of the metropolitan counties and the GLC in 1986 ( HMSO , 1983 , paragraph 1.19 ) .
28 One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church .
29 Secondly , local accountability was at the centre of the arguments put forward for the community charge ( or poll tax ) and other reforms in local taxation .
30 The redevelopment proposals put forward for the site at first envisaged that all the shopping should go underground .
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