Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 No I 've come in for physio actually .
2 She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love .
3 Black kids are psyched up for sport anyway .
4 Two anglers from London arrived at the draw but immediately set off for home again fearful of travelling conditions .
5 Oh we 're set up for Christmas now !
6 You hurry slowly in the Atlas : at the highest village we were taken in for tea again , by a sister of Ali 's .
7 Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s .
8 Companies that were awarded routes might have the right to run services for , say ten years , before their franchise would be put up for sale again , like ITV companies .
9 THE receiver handling the sale of Birmingham City has had 22 inquiries for the First Division club after it was formally put up for sale earlier this week .
10 The lease of Headington Hill Hall was put up for sale along with 32 other properties in January by receivers , Grant Thornton , and has attracted several bids .
11 United were put up for sale yesterday in a shock move at Bramall Lane .
12 In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly .
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