Example sentences of "[adv prt] for a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After clocking on for a night shift they did not start work immediately but went instead to the canteen for a cup of tea .
2 The kettle went on for a lunchtime brew-up before we tackled the group of small , uninhabited islands which lie west of Whalsay : Nacka Skerry , Nista , Mooa , Isbister Holm ( the only place in Shetland where sea-aster grows ) , East Linga and Grif Skerry .
3 The 21-year-old international , also a forward , clocks on for a trial period today , 24 hours after the arrival of Norway 's star striker , Tore Andre Dahlum of Rosenberg , who started a week 's trial yesterday .
4 Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) .
5 Cast on for a test piece and knit a few rows ending with the carriage at the right .
6 The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe .
7 In the string , taking Shine On for a showpiece half-speed over five furlongs , riding home , her mind was on the implications of his message .
8 We have n't put him down for a nursery school- !
9 Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing .
10 Shirts that left Comme des Garçons with a one-hundred-pound price tag will be knocked down for a bargain price ; and a man 's shirt that looks good on a woman will cost more than the men-only variety .
11 Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired .
12 Sarah Murray was recently turned down for a catwalk show because her walk was n't suitable .
13 Er when we have erm when you come down for , you know if if if we decide that this is for you , er when you come down for a training course they expect to see a car .
14 Tiger Moth pilot Tony drops in for a pub pint
15 You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first .
16 It is commonplace for me to step outside the door in the morning intending to do one particular task , and then to come back in for a lunchtime bowl of soup having done three or four entirely different jobs of maintenance or repair .
17 A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring .
18 Judi Goodwin drops in for a mince pie and soaks up the atmosphere of this warm , family home .
19 Said oh that 's alright , we 've got some friends coming down this weekend , we 'll come in for a bar snack .
20 Monaru was bought in for a course record of 11,500 gns after winning the Carlsberg Selling Hurdle but Pipe had no complaints and said : ‘ People do n't have to run in sellers if they do n't want to .
21 Minutes later McCluskey supplied the final pass to launch centre Alan Hunter in for a second Portadown try at the posts , leaving Brown to convert again to finally kill off Armagh 's stubborn challenge .
22 We are misled time after time after time when people have problems like they 're having their vehicle serviced , it 's put a claim in for a water pump , and have the cost of their service paid for .
23 well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car
24 Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ?
25 Popping in for a coffee morning some time .
26 Andy Roxburgh will check on Hendry before the World Cup qualifier with Portugal and is poised to bring him in for a match Scotland must now win .
27 If anybody comes in for a car radio cassette , I 've stuck one at the top there twenty quid if anybody
28 Rovers , always ahead through Paul Hardyman 's double and John Taylor , let County in for a gift point .
29 One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind .
30 And when you have Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons starring opposite his wife , Sinead Cusack you know you 're in for a class act .
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