Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time moves on for all of us and the next day we were homeward bound , hoping , like Peer Gynt , to return some day . |
| 2 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 3 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 4 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 5 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 6 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 7 | So it 's just an extra , erm , benefit that 's on , on for most of our policies one way or another , still covered between formal acceptance . |
| 8 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 9 | Even though they may be working together on contributory problems in the marriage , he still needs to recognise how she hung on for both of them while he was out having a good time . |
| 10 | This figure is then broken down for each of the UK countries . |
| 11 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 12 | Bear in mind , however , that most of the work I was doing was word processing , which allows the hard disk to be powered down for most of the time . |
| 13 | So that 's probably why they go in for more of these courses things |
| 14 | His mother , he knew , was in for another of her bouts , and he would have to bear the brunt of it . |
| 15 | and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning . |
| 16 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 17 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 18 | While you 're about it , get him in for some For Eyes . " |
| 19 | yeah that 's lovely , we did put in for some in February , we have this one in the we have n't got a cover that one . |
| 20 | Blockades of the city by pro-communist forces prevented food supplies from getting through for much of November . |
| 21 | It wo n't be over for any of us until the people who make war have been destroyed . ’ |
| 22 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 23 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 24 | I must save up for all of him . |
| 25 | But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman 's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs . |
| 26 | We , as professionals , need to stand up for that in which we believe . |
| 27 | Added up for each of our 800,000 sows , this would take the British herd to the moon and back 30 times . |
| 28 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 29 | This approach may lack an academic master work expounding and defending it , but it more than makes up for this with populist political appeal . |
| 30 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |