Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 2 | The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire . |
| 3 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 4 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 5 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 7 | So hang on for the ride , Pat . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 9 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 10 | Ah sure he 's only staying out for a while till he gets married and that . |
| 11 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 12 | The headmaster himself had accused her of only joining up for the uniform . |
| 13 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 14 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 15 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 16 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 17 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 18 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 19 | With their male love of machines , he and his friends ( especially rounded up for the occasion ) spent hours tinkering with it , heads down in worship under the bonnet . |
| 20 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 21 | But the bike is only cranked over for an instant before the Australian wrenches it upright and turns on the throttle . |
| 22 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 23 | Only spoke up for the girl . ’ |
| 24 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 25 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 26 | Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent . |
| 27 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
| 28 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 29 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 30 | If you live too far away to drive up for the day why not go for an extended weekend ? |