Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to subscribe , send a cheque for £35 , made payable to or look out for generous discounts in this issue of the magazine . |
| 2 | Combine a week ashore at the Symi Houseparty with a week afloat , or luxuriate aboard for two weeks . |
| 3 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 4 | The fact that , for various reasons , Crosland opposed suggested ‘ transbinary ’ mergers — including Lancaster and the University of Warwick , Brighton and the University of Sussex — strengthened the feeling that the new public sector was being protected or singled out for special development . |
| 5 | When pressed for reasons , they would draw on such ‘ obvious ’ facts as blacks are physically equipped or conditioned better for some sports , or reference was made to the explain-ail theory of ‘ natural ability ’ . |
| 6 | They do n't want to get stabbed … or sent away for six months . |
| 7 | Each school 's proposal is read by the DCSL , Divisional Librarian and the ACL:E&SS , and accepted or sent back for further refinement as required . |
| 8 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 9 | Within five years , half of all non-custodial parents ( usually fathers ) have remarried , creating some full-time and some part-time step-families where children visit or stay overnight for short periods ( Leete and Anthony , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Fielding would let them drawl or quack away for five minutes , before asking , with a strategic glint : And Shakespeare ? " |
| 11 | Calculate the over or under-absorbed overhead for each cost centre . |
| 12 | We can adapt our theories , or cast around for fresh ones , to suit our intuitions . |
| 13 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 14 | Class sizes are generally larger than PTRs , because not all teachers actually teach ( heads , for instance , spend most of their time on administrative work ) , because marking and preparation duties restrict direct contact hours with pupils , and because sometimes classes are combined or split up for various periods . |
| 15 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 16 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 17 | Maybe when he really got roughed up or stayed out for more than just a few days , Manuel would think about talking things over with the vet , but for now , well , ‘ what 's the hurry , man ? ! ’ |
| 18 | Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday . |
| 19 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 20 | Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably for one reason or another . |
| 21 | Still , a certain chiaroscuro grimness attached to their surreal exchange and cries out for some brainless , comic intervention . |
| 22 | The men would run up the outside staircases and make straight for that . |
| 23 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 24 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 25 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 26 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 27 | The interviewing panel of Horsley , Pilger and Hayling , with Kerry Brown and Maxine Johnson representing the Founders , was supplemented by Christine Jackson , sitting in and limbering up for Equal Opportunities . |
| 28 | Bring the mustard liquid to the boil , add the beef slices tied to the fork and simmer gently for 5–7 minutes . |
| 29 | Bring back to just under the boil and simmer gently for 5 minutes . |
| 30 | Place the redcurrants , the blackcurrants , and the gooseberries in a large saucepan with 2 tablespoons of water , cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes until just tender . |