Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 2 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 3 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 4 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 5 | He is also in the chair for the second single , due in May , and the debut album which is pencilled in for an August release . |
| 6 | A ‘ money bill ’ , one dealing essentially with financial matters , can be delayed only for a month . |
| 7 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 8 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 9 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 10 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 11 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 12 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 13 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 14 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 15 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 16 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 17 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 18 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 19 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 20 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 21 | PILOT error was blamed yesterday for a North Sea helicopter crash in which six men were killed . |
| 22 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 23 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 24 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 25 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 26 | Fred was now fully wound up for an argument . |
| 27 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 28 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |
| 29 | Observation was carried out for a total of nine weeks in the offices of four solicitors . |
| 30 | The transport consultants Oscar Faber TPA will develop work already carried out for a study on short-term measures in the Forth area . |