Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 2 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 3 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 4 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 5 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 6 | Avoid sitting down for long periods without a break . |
| 7 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 8 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 9 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 10 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 11 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 12 | More than 36,000 Chinese people have turned themselves in for economic crimes during a 10-week grace period that ended last week . |
| 13 | ‘ Being brought in for big games without any warning is something I 'm used to . |
| 14 | ‘ Being brought in for big games without any warning is something I 'm used to . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’ |
| 17 | The latest is he 's improving the prisons , and ’ — her head went back now and she laughed — ‘ he 's wanting a law brought in for heavy sentences for incest . |
| 18 | And then you just put the numbers in for different hours into the equation into the formula that tells you how far he 's gone , work it out . |
| 19 | There was a ‘ Refuge Rota ’ pinned by the house telephone , with six different names filled in for different times in the week . |
| 20 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 21 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 22 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 23 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 24 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 25 | Both reports constitute post hoc analyses of data on several thousand patients followed up for varying periods at regional hypertension clinics . |
| 26 | Surely it had been a joke , prompted by the dreadful heavy seriousness of Dwight Kronweiser and the overreverent attitude to Walter taken up for public reasons by Viola . |
| 27 | IF you want to get in trim for summer and raise money for a good cause , sign up for sponsored aerobics at the Dolphin Centre later this month . |
| 28 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 29 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 30 | Against bands of ‘ experts ’ and administrators , he has stood up for sensible methods of teaching and testing . |