Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
| 2 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 3 | Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool . |
| 4 | I just worry , as usual , that I shall be mopping you up for months to come . ’ |
| 5 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 6 | Just checking it over for test . |
| 7 | No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere . |
| 8 | For all the kids care he could be Goofy , hamming it up for Mickey Mouse . |
| 9 | Just testing it over for test . |
| 10 | Our prime purpose is to glorify God in reaching men and women for Christ , building them up in Christ , and sending them out for Christ . |
| 11 | People really do have to understand the trauma we are talking about with moving people out of homes , the trauma that moving them out for refurbishment is bad enough . |
| 12 | The trouble is he 's wearing it out for Christopher so you wo n't see the new one . |
| 13 | ‘ I also have a green velvet hat , ’ she told him solemnly , holding it up for inspection . |
| 14 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 15 | ‘ Accept the letter then , Miss , ’ the older man insisted , holding it out for Beth to take . |
| 16 | So what 's wrong with puttin' it up for discussion ? ’ |
| 17 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 18 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 19 | The bad news , on which I expect you 'll agree with me , is that across all parties , the professional politicians have been letting us down for decades . |
| 20 | With this last push Penguin is building her up for HarperCollins to take over , for she is on the move . |
| 21 | She 's been reading them up for days . ’ |
| 22 | We came to recognize the furtive knocking of these late callers , and tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy . |
| 23 | The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm taking you out for lunch , darlin' . |
| 25 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 26 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 27 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 28 | ‘ I did have my right nipple pierced , but I had to keep taking it out for films , so it kept healing up . |
| 29 | ‘ They were taking us out for meals . |
| 30 | That 's what I 'd like to know said Gwendoline smugly , six buttons all ripped off I 'm putting them on for Mary Lou because I 'm so sorry any one should play at such a dirty trick . |