Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds .
2 Sexton made four changes at half-time , replacing Woods with Martyn , Dixon with Sterland and Linighan with Pallister and bringing Newell on for Wright .
3 So I think drop Mortimer and bring Colimore in for a full ninety minutes and then and and again and again and again .
4 In their wisdom Ciaran Fitzgerald and his selectors decided to dispense with the incumbent , Rob Saunders , and bring Aherne back for his thirteenth Irish cap .
5 With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) .
6 He says it means they 'll have to start again and buy straw in for the winter .
7 If your record starts to pick up air play and get reviewed just after three weeks , it may be worth keeping your plugger and press officer on for a bit longer .
8 I 'm not half-witted , you know ; I can read and write and work things out for myself ! ’
9 Once seed heads/leaves change colour remove and hang upside down for a while ensuring the tips preserve too .
10 United 's other young star , Chrissie Allen raced down the left and set things up for goal number 4 .
11 I thought everyone was going to recognise me on the street , ’ Now his favourite leisure activities are watching television — ‘ I call it my sofa therapy ’ — and having friends over for dinner .
12 ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him .
13 Understanding does not come easily , but if you study the documentation and try things out for yourself you will be well rewarded .
14 I must n't go to pieces , she whispered , tomorrow I 'll be brave , and ask Ricky round for a drink .
15 There were all the other brothers and sisters , Edith who was good at arithmetic and sorted things out for all and sundry , David who was to become a police inspector , Hilda and Cassie who delighted in their roguish little brother — threepence here , sixpence there .
16 She had so hoped that Josh would like David ‘ He s tired , ’ she apologized , and took Josh off for his afternoon nap He kicked and screamed , furious that his mother 's attention was being distracted from himself .
17 She 's getting a a carrier and putting things in for her .
18 It is fruitless as well as greedy , however , to try and pick Montepulciano over for cherries .
19 It will be up to trusts to decide whether to pay for training and permit time off for it .
20 Classroom talk , despite the apparent conversational liveliness of many classrooms , could be shown on closer examination to be somewhat impoverished and unchallenging , with a general tendency to discourage children from asking their own questions and thinking things out for themselves , and a lack of informative feedback .
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