Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The afternoon ending , we took Fiona home and went on to Shellerton House where Perkin came through for drinks , Tremayne went out to see the horses and Gareth returned from a football match . |
| 2 | Research in child development suggests that there appear to be no differences between male and female humour , at least until school age , where boys go in for practical jokes more than girls . |
| 3 | By 10 minutes to 12 everything was ready for the bazaar , so Amanda set out for home , tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear . |
| 4 | I backed away in alarm and refused to touch it , so Sean made up for my abstinence . |
| 5 | Our survey shows that people with bank accounts are much more likely than others to shop around for credit , and to use lower-cost forms of credit . |
| 6 | If more than lip service is to be paid to the notion that we are all equal , then it must be first acknowledged that we are born unequal , and that some of us have to work harder than others to make up for it . |
| 7 | What about if T goes on for about erm one second , when it 's going to be equal to V M one minus E to the minus one . |
| 8 | If Owen looked round for the cameras , North acted throughout as though he was sure they were there . |
| 9 | Also organisations like ours are members of the Construction Industry Training Board so for instance if was going along we might get a from the C I T B so I mean grants might be available if people rout around for them . |
| 10 | You 'd have to pay for your own food , because — unless things look up for us — we shall have to live on grass like Nebuchadnezzar ; but that would n't cost you £1 a week , so you could manage the fare , could n't you ? |
| 11 | You 'll have to save it till Paul comes back for the car . |
| 12 | The man counts the money and they argue for a while , Tod saying nine hundred , the man saying seven , then the man saying six while Tod holds out for a thou , and so on . |
| 13 | While councillors came in for much criticism for being representative , health professionals had similar difficulties . |
| 14 | while hands reach out for other hands |
| 15 | While Pavel set out for the next town on his list . |
| 16 | They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do . |
| 17 | The judges will hear arguments next month and make their rulings , with luck , before Germany shuts down for August . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the Sole family plan to spend a fortnight 's holiday in Florida before David girds up for Scotland 's challenge in the Five Nations . |
| 19 | Felipe had gone before Maggie came down for breakfast the next day . |
| 20 | He decided to throw caution to the wind before Selwyn came over for his tea . |
| 21 | Blair was wide by the narrowest of margins with three well-struck penalties before Gallagher went over for his second try following a quick transfer right from Johnny Hastings . |
| 22 | Tries from Dale Laughton , Carr and Paul Broadbent put the Eagles in control before Currier ran in for his hat-trick . |
| 23 | Jahsaxa had summoned Tammuz Malamute to her office before Zambia turned up for treatment . |
| 24 | They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill . |
| 25 | Her scream whirled across the waves like debris in a tornado ; she pelted over the sand and through the trees like a creature when hunters close in for the kill . |
| 26 | To pack and process them he needed staff , so our terms stipulated a minimum of two months ' summer work , the understanding being that when contracts came up for renewal , priority would be given to those who had put in most time on the slime-line . |
| 27 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 28 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 29 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 30 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |