Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 2 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 3 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 4 | Contact : Motif Editions on for everyday range and Publications Department , City Art Gallery on for Eric Gill cards |
| 5 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 6 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 7 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 8 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 9 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 10 | The dog-handlers struggled on for another hour but then they , too , gave up . |
| 11 | No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer . |
| 12 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 13 | She would sit down for one minute and then she would go and warm herself beside Tom . |
| 14 | In ‘ Comfort ’ , gear ratios are maintained as high as possible , while in ‘ Special Range ’ it is quicker to kick down for rapid acceleration and remains in a lower ratio until higher engine speeds . |
| 15 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 16 | The gaol was at its busiest during the 1840s , when labourers on the Buckingham railway line were continually being hauled in for petty crime and drunkeness ; a spell in one of the cells was guaranteed to sober them up . |
| 17 | But the 28-year-old Heinzer hung in for second place and another Austrian veteran , Peter Wirnsberger , for third . |
| 18 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 19 | The List came in for copious criticism and there were a number of insinuations that the List — which had first appeared on a piece of lavender-coloured notepaper — was largely the work of Lady Falkender . |
| 20 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 21 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |
| 22 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 23 | Drop in for some caffeine and culture ! |
| 24 | be quite a bit in that account because there was only one six that went through for this insurance and there has n't been a lot more going through this month . |
| 25 | Recent research ( by Don Walz in the U.S.A. ) shows that the black pigmentation uses so much protein that there may be insufficient left over for normal growth and health . |
| 26 | The party 's finally over for this man and the street can now try and get some sleep . |
| 27 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 28 | THE ‘ Antiques Roadshow ’ may be over for another year but the affection for collectibles continues with bargains still being unearthed in the most unusual of places . |
| 29 | The extraordinary laying is over for another year and the crabs ' progeny , abandoned , must now look after themselves . |
| 30 | She lifted a lined face to him , and he reached over for another Kleenex and smoothed the wetness away , so that she was almost without makeup . |