Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 2 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 3 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 4 | Microsoft 's Windows NT group has signed up for a 20ft by 20ft booth , claiming it does n't have the budget for a bigger space . |
| 5 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 6 | The practical tasks a carer has to carry out for a dementia sufferer are not necessarily , of course , the hardest part of care . |
| 7 | A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment . |
| 8 | His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived . |
| 9 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 10 | The regular conductor Bruno Walder was taken ill , and Bernstein suffering from a hangover had to take over for a Sunday afternoon concert broadcast on radio across America ; he captivated the audience and the critics , as much with his conducting prowess as with his gyrations on the podium which earned him the nickname ‘ Leaping Lennie ’ . |
| 11 | She yawned , elaborately , and said , " Too much effort to go chasing out for a bath . |
| 12 | A minute into the second half , Alton made up the deficit when Paul Ventham intercepted a defender 's pass to put Whiddett through for a clinical finish . |
| 13 | There is no truth in the rumour that some of their number fancied joining in for a bit of a busman's/policeman 's holiday . |
| 14 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |
| 15 | Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust has signed up for a Department of Health initiative which encourages healthy living for all staff . |
| 16 | Sometimes , when activity is particularly intense , the wall of the crater is breached and a small lava flow emerges and flows away downhill , and if this happens , the activity tends to quieten down for a while . |
| 17 | So the activity tended to peter out for a numbr of very good reasons . ’ |
| 18 | Dad 's gone up for a bath . ’ |
| 19 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |