Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I let her warble on for a while about the trials of high office , and feign interest in titbits of gossip from the upper echelons . |
| 2 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 3 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 4 | As soon as I was clear of the entrance to the voe , I let the boat steer herself while I put the kettle on for a cuppa after a modest breakfast of bread and cheese . |
| 5 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 6 | She put the kettle on for a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | Half way through Edward gave up , scraped the rest into Tam 's food bowl and put the kettle on for a cup of tea ; behind him , Tam slurped as though rescued from the brink of starvation . |
| 8 | Mrs. Feather says : " I 'll put the kettle on for a cup of tea . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got the kettle on for a cup of tea . ’ |
| 10 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 11 | ‘ You 're to ride Shine On for a spot of work . ’ |
| 12 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 13 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 14 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 15 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 16 | The Governor Eyre controversy dragged on for a number of years , creating deep divisions within respectable society . |
| 17 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 18 | He went hunting in Grasmere , and often stayed on for a party in the evening after a hunt . |
| 19 | Win a weekend away The search is on for a photo of Britain 's best windowbox , basket or tub . |
| 20 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 21 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 22 | Eight cars were illuminated , including car 3 of 1885 ( see p. 37 ) , and the lights were kept on for the rest of the season to enhance the scene . |
| 23 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 24 | It rumbled on for the rest of the week . |
| 25 | There seemed only one answer , for India had seldom boasted fast bowlers of sufficient quality to operate much beyond the first half-dozen shine-removing overs before the spinners came on for the rest of the innings . |
| 26 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 27 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 28 | He refuses to play for the moment , boldly pressing on where others tend to dwell ; yet , with those Philadelphians really turning it on for the composer with whom this orchestra is most indelibly associated , superbly captured in Decca sound of great sumptuousness and tonal allure ( even if not always ideally balanced ) , it all makes for compulsive listening . |
| 29 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 30 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |