Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year . |
| 2 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 3 | This extends to his judicious choice of tempi which thankfully avoids the ‘ brakes on for the big melodies ’ approach , which in some versions comes close to collapsing the entire edifice under its own emotional weight . |
| 4 | Further up the line Graham will call Wright in for the one-to-one . |
| 5 | Turn on to a side for the next quarter , then the other side and breast side up for the final cooking time , removing the foil . |
| 6 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 7 | We called Lucy out for the Grand Inspection . |
| 8 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 9 | As he pushed the nose down for the final approach , he extended down the undercarriage . |
| 10 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 11 | SCAFFOLDER UP FOR THE HIGH JUMP — IN AID OF CHARITY |
| 12 | If your Marshall is presently going through a bit of a traumatic phase , then keep a sharp eye out for the new range of Marshall original spares . |
| 13 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 14 | They were flying the Liberators in for the big daylight raids on the Ruhr and one of them flew straight into the field where Grandad was working , planting carrots for the war effort . |
| 15 | Then , to rub things in for the assembled paparazzi , Kylie made the photographers sign legal forms as they entered the theatre . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |
| 17 | In 1642 he was acting as a commissary , or supply officer , at Chester , sending provisions over for the Anglo-Scottish forces in Ireland . |
| 18 | Pickering lost the ball on the edge of his own area allowing Gooding to thread the ball through for the unchallenged Maskell to shoot home . |
| 19 | In the next attack Toman again ran at the defence and laid the ball off for the supporting Les McJannet ten yards out , but the full back was denied by a last ditch tackle . |
| 20 | And it 's a day off for the Premier League sides including Swindon . |
| 21 | Yeah , but it 's just really for the making up for the odd one I |
| 22 | It is being used simply to speed things up for the general election . |
| 23 | Get your initials up for the ultimate high score . ’ |
| 24 | At 5' 9 ’ and eight stone , Desiree took Tyson out for the big count and put him down where he belongs . |
| 25 | A visit will be an exciting day out for the entire family . |
| 26 | Whereas the Natural History Museum ( the V&A 's neighbour on the other side of Exhibition Road ) attempts to justify admissions charges through an energetic advertising and marketing campaign promoting the idea of the museum visit as an entertaining-cum-educational day out for the whole family , the ‘ national Museum of Art and Design ’ must work to counteract the potential elitism implicit in its status as an institution of cultural as opposed to ‘ natural ’ history . |
| 27 | While there is at present no firm indication that Christie 's will be following suit , the auction house will have to act quickly if it does decide to raise the rate in order to get the new terms out for the renewed contracts for American consigners which will be issued in the New Year . |
| 28 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 29 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 30 | What he was planning would tie half the hospital up for the entire morning ! |