Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘ |
| 2 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 3 | The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign . |
| 4 | There are also the dangers of cutting down on food to pay for drink or drifting into excessive drinking due to loneliness . |
| 5 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 6 | Only $500 million consisted of humanitarian aid , however , with the remainder made up of trade guarantees for Japanese companies . |
| 7 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 8 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 9 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 10 | He called the first meeting together , served ( unpaid ) as the Society 's first secretary , and ended up in prison paying for the Society 's debts . |
| 11 | While others at Balmoral were losing sleep over the Fergie scandal , Diana was up at dawn preparing for a surprise visit to terminally-ill cancer patients . |
| 12 | FAITH NO MORE , who upset animal rights organisations with their 1990 video for ‘ Epic ’ , showing a goldfish out of water gasping for air , have found some unexpected supporters for their new one : People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals . |
| 13 | Well , at last some good news on the jobs front , with the number of people out of work falling for the second month running . |
| 14 | Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ? |
| 15 | In the changing conceptual frame inside which a science progresses , it would be as out of place to look for progress as in the styles of an art . |
| 16 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 17 | Consider the following scenario : a caveman leaves his cave one day setting out in order to hunt for food . |
| 18 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 19 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 21 | ( 2 January 1773 ) Despite these first-night upsets Lucio Silla ( 15 ) succeeded to such an extent that the second opera , which was to have begun on 23 January , was put back in order to allow for additional performances ( 26 in all ) . |
| 22 | Guildford Kings star Gordon , who top scored with 17 points , put his country back on course to qualify for next year 's tournament finals in Germany , when all hope had seemed lost with less than five minutes remaining . |
| 23 | Now we have to beat Portugal and Italy at Ibrox before the end of the year to get ourselves back on course to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 24 | In the meantime , Adam has gone back to school to study for his A levels . |
| 25 | SALLY Faber , wife of Westbury Tory MP David Faber , has gone back to school to prepare for her new job as a weather girl with the London News Network , the new London television service . |
| 26 | If you go out at night looking for a father for your children , everyone brands you a whore . |
| 27 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 28 | How many times have you faced the glares of your fellow shoppers in supermarkets as you struggle to pack your bags with one hand and write a cheque with the other , or fumble around for cash to pay for your goods . |
| 29 | The study of society would be a chair-bound discipline indeed if its practitioners did not move about in society looking for ideas . |