Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Baines needed stitches and was kept in for observation after needles from the artificial conifer , wielded by wife Lorraine , became embedded in his scalp . |
| 2 | A sea officer , however , who was without significant influence , was likely to find himself regularly passed over for promotion by friends of the owners being groomed for command . |
| 3 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 4 | A POWERFUL RIG SIMPLY SET UP FOR PERFORMANCE WITH IDEAS FROM THE RACING CIRCUIT MATCHED WITH A DOUBLE LUFF GENOA REEFING SYSTEM . |
| 5 | Earlier the court heard that in the days after the attack Nichol turned up for work with scratches on his face . |
| 6 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 7 | McPherson , who has every intention of returning to Burnbrae next season , if he can manage it , turns out for West against Watsonians at Myreside tomorrow where the home side will have the considerable assistance of Gavin Hastings , who will spend a nail-biting weekend as he waits to hear if he is to captain the Lions , the squad being announced on Monday . |
| 8 | Two of his country houses , Eshton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1825–7 ) , and Underley Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale ( 1825–8 ) , are amongst the very earliest examples of this idiom , as well as being notably accomplished productions which were singled out for praise in Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan Architecture ( 1839 ) , by Henry Shaw [ q.v . ] . |