Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 2 | The practical tasks a carer has to carry out for a dementia sufferer are not necessarily , of course , the hardest part of care . |
| 3 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 8 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 9 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , West Ham defender Julian Dicks has revved up for a big-match return tonight — thanks to a £10,000 Harley Davidson . |
| 12 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 13 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 14 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 15 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 16 | Microsoft 's Windows NT group has signed up for a 20ft by 20ft booth , claiming it does n't have the budget for a bigger space . |
| 17 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 18 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 19 | West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years . |
| 20 | Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust has signed up for a Department of Health initiative which encourages healthy living for all staff . |
| 21 | erm there are times , perhaps , when one feels this is a little bit dull and wants to skip on for a page or two , but I suspect that that is the case with most novels that one would want to read nowadays . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 23 | Sometimes , when activity is particularly intense , the wall of the crater is breached and a small lava flow emerges and flows away downhill , and if this happens , the activity tends to quieten down for a while . |
| 24 | The Britons are trying to keep ahead of Norwegian lawyer Erling Kagge , who hopes to make up for a late start in bad weather . |
| 25 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |
| 26 | She 's gone over for a closer look . ’ |
| 27 | He 's gone out for a while . |
| 28 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 29 | I think he 's put in for a . |
| 30 | Like her mum , she 's sent off for a cat catalogue , she got it , you know within thirteen days I think it was . |