Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique , and still has stock dating back for generations . |
| 2 | Golf : Practice paying off for Torrance |
| 3 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 4 | Honestly , you 'd think it was Antony coming back for Cleopatra the way she 's carrying on ! ’ |
| 5 | They are a work force crying out for engagement and reward , a force moreover that from its roots understands the value of technical skills , and of education allied to technology . |
| 6 | she sez she heard screams saying please for god sake stop and she ran to fetch her husband to see if he could help . |
| 7 | That the words ‘ carriers concerned ’ under paragraph 2 of article 39 CMR did not include a carrier claiming either for indemnity or contribution under article 37 . |
| 8 | In speeches summing up for Yeltsin it was claimed that about 40,000,000 people had been " eliminated " by the CPSU , and that 19,840,000 " enemies of the people " had been repressed . |
| 9 | Sunderland turned it on to win 3–0 against Ipswich and end their dismal sequence of five league defeats but Crosby expects an entirely different type of game against a side battling desperately for survival . |
| 10 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 11 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 12 | They ate breakfast standing , Riven wishing momentarily for coffee . |
| 13 | They earn their bread reckoning up for investors the risk of default . |
| 14 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 15 | The team was unchanged from Soton , except for Fairclough coming in for Newsome ( to counter Flo 's aerial threat ? ) |
| 16 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 17 | Plastic side-screens form part of the weather protection , with the rear half sliding forwards for ventilation . |
| 18 | BOURNEMOUTH Golden Oldies Hockey Festival International event for the over 35s with teams from Fiji , New Zealand , Canada and West Germany bullying off for supremacy in the week long tournament . |
| 19 | Of the second wave of Irish films gearing up for release , only one has not been made by a British director . |
| 20 | The 69-year-old from Beechwood in Middlesbrough lost a ‘ substantial ’ sum of money after a visit from two men , claiming to be Middlesbrough Council workers measuring up for replacement doors and windows . |
| 21 | That left the banks paying more for funds , but unable , for a long time , to raise the cost of mortgages to compensate . |
| 22 | Were they a group , he wondered , or just individuals travelling together for comfort and security ? |
| 23 | But at the moment serving with the group of churches in Ealy , Bathyclyn and also with erm part time working in Ealy as the youth worker for the community working partly for Dr Barnados partly for the ULT and Methodist and he 'll acting in it as well in Ealy and sponsored by the Global of the United States . |
| 24 | In central Italy the once dominant share-cropping system has collapsed and in its place has emerged a complicated mixture of part-time farmers producing largely for home-consumption , family farmers and capitalist enterprises producing for the market . |
| 25 | Actually Father Duryea , our contact , our man , always saw us right away ; but that did n't stop Hamilton hanging around for hours afterwards , in the waiting room . |
| 26 | They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way . |
| 27 | It was a recent television series called Heroes II — The Return , which brought the memories flooding back for Bernard Seyburn . |
| 28 | They rushed at the table from all sides , scrambling over stools , jumping down from top bunks like pigeons clattering down for crumbs . |
| 29 | By this time the families staying there for summer quarters were out for a forenoon walk : mothers , nurses , playful youngsters — some with towels for the bathing , others with picnic baskets , making for the cliffs or the shore . |
| 30 | It was during a short stay in December 1986 with friends at their cottage near the village of Carno in beautiful Mid Wales that first learnt of a nearby former railway station coming up for sale . |