Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 2 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 3 | Upset by what he had seen and casting around for someone to blame , he translated his guilt into aggression and resurrected the threat of marriage to Sien as a supposed solution . |
| 4 | Around 1900–1901 , the mill was closed and put up for sale , remaining unoccupied for some time . |
| 5 | After it was closed and put up for sale eighteen months ago they did their utmost to buy it and run it on a community basis . |
| 6 | The pool had just been cleaned and called out for swimmers . |
| 7 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 8 | Like the stoplist , the golist can also be displayed or printed out for consideration prior to updating or other modification . |
| 9 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 10 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 13 | All five teenagers were arrested and taken in for questioning . |
| 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 | Tickets were retained and handed over for juice and crisps when requested . |
| 16 | Tickets were retained and handed over for juice and crisps when requested . |
| 17 | To fill the vacant position , Sir Henry , still nursing ambitions for the club he had guided and invested in for so long , wanted no one else but the outstandingly successful manager of Huddersfield Town . |
| 18 | Workers are more limited to particular geographical locations , and workers ' organizations can be completely destroyed or set back for years by unsuccessful struggles such as long running strikes or ( still more ) a general strike . |
| 19 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 20 | The best thing she could do was take a shower , get dressed and go out for some fresh air . |
| 21 | Options need to be created and opened up for women . |
| 22 | It might then be the ‘ painting of Limbo ’ which Mantegna is recorded as working on for Ludovico Gonzaga in a document of 1468 . |
| 23 | First , all juices and liquid which come from fish or meat to be potted , whether especially cooked for the purpose or whether left-over from a joint , must be drained off before the food is pounded or packed up for potting . |
| 24 | When the name of a group of fishes is mentioned as going out for a swim all the members walk around the monsters in a circle . |