Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anandi Ramamurthy , a freelance educational gallery tutor brought in specially for this project , was commended for the way she made viewing interesting and easy to understand . |
| 2 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 3 | You would think that they were — thankfully — drawing to a close , and then they would burst off again for another hour and you found yourself wishing they would just shut up . |
| 4 | Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’ |
| 5 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 6 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 8 | At the end of the treatment period the subjects with a persistently normal urinary albumin excretion ( less than 30 mg/24 h ) were left untreated and followed up regularly for this variable . |
| 9 | Coincidentally , the England squad team up tomorrow for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Turkey . |
| 10 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 11 | I 'd hate for him to be stuck up there for last week in March |
| 12 | possibility is that Marilyn would stay up there for another year with Carris you know in their house and Timothy of course and erm , then sort of move down here |
| 13 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 14 | Sometimes Chinese Walls are used ; at other times firewalls , whereby a certain type of business is conducted separate from ordinary business , within a specialized subsidiary set up specifically for this purpose . |
| 15 | My fear has made me a prisoner in my own home ; I go out only for essential shopping . |
| 16 | Lloyds , Midland and NatWest came in for most criticism overall , while Abbey National , the Co-op Bank , FirstDirect , the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Yorkshire Bank came out best for overall satisfaction . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's it to you ? ’ drawled Thacker , tilting his head back further for another swig . |
| 18 | Well A Alison goes out for one evening so that means I have to get back early for that evening |
| 19 | Back home for one day — one day — and already she 's smaller . |
| 20 | Look out also for such exotica as malegato , an aromatic Italian equivalent of traditional Scots black pudding . |
| 21 | ‘ The waiters only ever come back here for one reason , ’ Josie explained in a low voice . |
| 22 | His team is like Dumbo : no-one seriously believes it can fly all the way back here for next summer 's World Cup finals after losing 2–0 to an American side that chortled with disbelief . |
| 23 | A particularly disturbing feature of the latter case was that instructions were allegedly given ‘ to listen out particularly for any reference to the Ford union 's bottom line in the pay negotiations . |
| 24 | In America it 's already selling well , but it wo n't be out here for some time . |
| 25 | Social class is not the only speaker variable which presents problems of definition and interpretation , but it has been singled out here for detailed discussion for two reasons . |
| 26 | Cut out twice for each tie-back , adding 1cm allowance for the seam . |
| 27 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 28 | There has to be a demand out there for this kind of thing , everyone is so hip to the idea of ambient music nowadays , and what could be more consummately ambient than a fridge ? |
| 29 | and we 've just rung these people up from the Yellow Pages , I mean this does suggest does n't it that there 's quite a f quite a a big market out there for this stuff ? |
| 30 | In the future , the time may come when we need that land back again for growing food , but if the top-soil has been damaged by development it will be worse than useless . |