Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [det] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 2 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 3 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 6 | Drop in for some caffeine and culture ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I slow down for some cows and greet many people but I do n't usually have to stop now , even for elders . |
| 9 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 10 | ‘ Management development programme being set up for all departments and supervisory training for clerical and manual staff ’ … |
| 11 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 12 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 13 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |
| 14 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 15 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 21 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 22 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 23 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 24 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 25 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 26 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 27 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 28 | Langford pulled a goal back on sixty eight minutes , but Thame held out for another victory and they still top the South Midland League . |