Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 2 | Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 3 | Like those boys that come in for a single rose as if nobody 's ever done that before . |
| 4 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 5 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 6 | And look out for a new Spanish star , Jésus Montoya , who showed so brilliantly in the Vuelta d'Espana in May . |
| 7 | Leave the summit walking south and look out for a shallow gully leading towards a steep grass slope beside a burn and on to Glenlicht House . |
| 8 | SHOULD Selkirk fail to make the grade and drop out for a fourth spell in Division II , they will at least on this occasion descend with honour . |
| 9 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 10 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 11 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 12 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 13 | All appointees have to provide a urine sample — even Pamela Harriman , the new ambassador to Paris , had to stand in line , clutching her paper cup — and turn up for a face-to-face interview , which usually lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours . |
| 14 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 15 | But the children soon settle down and gather round for a closer look at Caesar a 12ft long Burmese python . |
| 16 | So far so good : then you select a soiled dish , collect some scraps from the garbage , and settle down for a short wait . |
| 17 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |