Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 2 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 3 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 4 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
| 5 | ‘ Uncle Jake says we 've to be down for breakfast in a quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 6 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 7 | Horses often display these signs when asked to perform a difficult movement , and will be marked down for resistance in a dressage test . |
| 8 | After a few seconds of awkward introductions , Zohra excused herself with a promise to be down for cocoa at the usual time , then led Harry upstairs . |
| 9 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 10 | At the end of one particularly difficult morning surgery , she sat down for coffee with a long sigh of relief . |
| 11 | I felt totally drawn into the piece as I recognised struggled I 've had with my own mother and my feelings of shame , and fear , talking about sex — the terrible silence that develops which no one attempts to break down for fear of the pain ‘ that ‘ conversation would bring ’ . |
| 12 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 13 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 14 | Josie found her when she turned in for work at the club that evening . |
| 15 | How to get the plan called in for consideration at a public inquiry , since there is every likelihood Dyfed County Council and possibly CCW would be prepared to negotiate a compromise , based on past performance . |
| 16 | WE still get cars in for service from the 1950 's and 1960's . |
| 17 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
| 18 | Velocities up to are well out of the range of the rotation velocity ( 250kms -1 ) of the galaxy NGC4258 7 and are much higher than any velocities known for molecular gas in our Galaxy or other galaxies ( for example for H 2 O maser in for CO in the galaxy for OH in the galaxy NGC253 13 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ He discovered it by chance about thirty years ago , when his yacht ran in for shelter from a storm . ’ |
| 20 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |
| 21 | Some of these types who went in for murder as a professional thing would probably take you to the cleaners as soon as look at you . |
| 22 | Wherever possible , keep the water that the mushrooms are soaked in for use in the recipe . |
| 23 | Surely not you know fill in a task form in for print off a couple of negs . |
| 24 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 25 | But I come here to address you , in all humility , because I am very interested in the subject of your conference ; and with the vanity of an old man I would like to take part , not as an outsider addressing budding scientists — a bit of ‘ general studies ’ thrown in for relaxation between the serious business — but as a fellow enquirer into the workings of the brain . |
| 26 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 27 | Mr Tristan Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , will join his French counterpart , M Roland Dumas , in insisting that the two Lockerbie suspects be handed over for trial in the West . |
| 28 | Feeling Ferrebee 's cool glance George hurried on : ‘ I hear the Americans are going to invite witnesses over for post-mortem on the Abbey . |
| 29 | I would guess that he originally came over for morale of the troops . |
| 30 | Richart , who plotted to assassinate the king in a brothel , was a liberal army paymaster who was passed over for absorption into the civil service — the only career for superfluous officers . |