Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport . |
| 2 | However , on Saturday , October 10 , it is pencilled in for a proposed Newcastle to Maryport via Leeds , Skipton and Workington special , returning to Bradford Forster Square . |
| 3 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 4 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 5 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 6 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 7 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 8 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 9 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 10 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 11 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 12 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 13 | The massive £45-million building was planned when property prices in London seemed set to rise forever , but the scheme was still dependent on the top five floors being let out for an annual £6 million . |
| 14 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 15 | And the advice was on the back of the most comprehensive research ever carried out for a new paper . |
| 16 | The JCT designed this form for use where minor building works are to be carried out for an agreed lump sum based on drawings and/or specifications and/or schedules but without detailed measurements , and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer . |
| 17 | Here again they state that the form is for use where works are carried out for an agreed lump sum and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer . |
| 18 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 19 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 20 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 21 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 22 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 23 | Powerful amplifiers can be turned down for a small hall , but a weak amplifier has no potential for increased volume before it starts distorting the sound . |
| 24 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 25 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 26 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 27 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 28 | Three thousand tabs of Ecstasy were handed over for a thick wad of notes . |
| 29 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 30 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |