Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 2 | His landlord wants him to pay a further $170 to make up for the deposit that 's gone missing . |
| 3 | The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany . |
| 4 | Wet post cut up for the cook and it 's an anagram of wet post ? |
| 5 | ‘ Your concern does you credit , and I 'll see to it you have a few things wrapped up for the poor woman when you go to see her . ’ |
| 6 | The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night . |
| 7 | So here the relationship between the lexical concepts has to be marked in some way to make up for the inadequacy of the words to indicate what part of the general context of knowledge is to be engaged . |
| 8 | I 'll try and get some mates to help out for the crack . ’ |
| 9 | And as the bridal couple stood up for the first dance , she felt the enormous gulf between their obvious carefree happiness and her present misery . |
| 10 | This document sets out for the first time an integrated policy and management system , with the emphasis on continuous improvement . |
| 11 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 12 | More than 100 cars lined up for the start . |
| 13 | I thought , ‘ Well , I 've got second place wrapped up for the Open ! ’ |
| 14 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 15 | One day a week , the men were allowed a dark suit to go out for the day to visit friends or relatives . |
| 16 | ‘ Since coming home , I have played for Wasps against Cambridge and for England against South Africa , so I need three tough Divisional fixtures to sharpen up for the international championship . |
| 17 | Entire villages turned out for the spectacle and in Györ , the Bishop himself headed the assembled burghers . |
| 18 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 19 | When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema . |
| 20 | A fox on the run , seconds before the leading hound moves in for the kill . |
| 21 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 22 | ‘ Three weeks sitting in for the regular breakfast show jock on a commercial station there , while he takes over your show here . |
| 23 | He persuaded her to eat a little fish to make up for the missing protein . |
| 24 | Opposite him on one of the three tables set out for the lavish dinner was Prime Minister John Major . |
| 25 | Maybe a couple of dozen people show up for the party ; about half locals — mostly men , though there 's one married couple and a pair of single girls — and half travellers , New Age hippies from various scattered buses and vans parked in lay-bys and the highway equivalent of oxbows , where corners or short , twisty lengths of old roads have been replaced with more direct stretches . |
| 26 | At £115 ( today a first edition set of Birds of Australia is worth in excess of £150,000 ) 283 subscribers signed up for the privilege of owning a copy . |
| 27 | The environmental quality of national parks in England and Wales has deteriorated over the last two decades , according to the first-ever national survey carried out for the Countryside Commission . |
| 28 | The legislation has been designed in part on the basis of research on custodial interrogation carried out for the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure . |
| 29 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |
| 30 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |