Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 2 | he said he said what he 's gon na do is erm is he 's got his name down for buying a trailer for it as well |
| 3 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 4 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 5 | ‘ To turn you in for abducting a minor . ’ |
| 6 | Richard William Dunn , 39 , of Vine Street , was also bound over for obstructing a police constable . |
| 7 | THEY take the lead with a fine goal , concede two sloppy ones , and then the captain gets sent off for throwing a punch not even redeemed by the infliction of injury . |
| 8 | Hull were reduced to 12 men on the hour when Mark Jones was sent off for throwing a punch at Gary Tees . |
| 9 | I used to tell him off for riding a bike without a light — summonsed him in the end and he was fined about ten bob . |
| 10 | He took on a starring role in the Plough Lane Crazy Gang production and gained more notoriety when he was sent off for elbowing a village postman in a pre-season friendly on the Isle of Wight . |
| 11 | Cicero , who had his head and hands cut off for recommending a return to republican principles , ruefully referred to Jupiter as ‘ the awful presence of the supreme mind ’ , perhaps foreshadowing Christian beliefs . |
| 12 | Tom then howled and snatched it back and the parents intervened to tell him off for making a noise and for snatching . |
| 13 | They started to fight about who had the most crayons and mother tried to intervene and tell them both off for making a noise . |
| 14 | My grandma told my father off for growing a beard . |
| 15 | Not satisfied with her cut from the sale of foreign cars , Elena also asserted her prerogative with regard to the distribution of the standard Romanian car , the Dacia 1300 , making party officials pay up for getting a car ahead of others in the queue ( which , as usual in Romania , seemed to grow ceaselessly ) . |
| 16 | No , I do n't think so , you 'll probably get , get had up for having a erm brothel |