Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun prp] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Now he has his leg in plaster … and is under strict orders from wife Angela to stay calm when Christie bids for glory again today in the 200 metres .
2 She reached for the .38 jammed into her waistband , trying to pull it free as Stark grabbed for her throat .
3 Patrick was three months old when Sarah knew for sure that she would have James 's child before the year was out .
4 Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year .
5 And yet an Englishman 's relation to English culture and its traditions may be more tormented than Schniedau allows for , especially if the Englishman in question defines himself as , or aspires to be , an English artist .
6 Four attempts proved the deviation impossible and McFall prepared for a spot of slip fielding .
7 Mr Hurd stunned even diehard Tories by revealing that Britain will step aside from the European mainstream if Denmark goes for rejection .
8 Klemkosky and Lee looked for a mispricing every ten minutes and found that , even for the arbitrageurs with the largest no-arbitrage band ( taxed institutional investors ) , the no-arbitrage band was violated 5% of the time .
9 A clash with Constantius II was inevitable and Magnentius prepared for this immediately by raising a large army with substantial aid obtained from and freely given by the provincials , especially those in Gaul and Britain .
10 Surprisingly , it did not feel too cold and Endill stood for a moment trying to see the end of it but it disappeared into darkness .
11 Osep brought up the piebald that Burun used for riding when he was with the clan , and Burun mounted .
12 Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations .
13 For otherwise how can we ever be sure whether Beethoven intends for us to see a horde of goblins or a host of elephants ? ’
14 It is important that MMRC establishes for the Course management a clear set of academic priorities .
15 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
16 Soft music filled Helen 's rooms , and she and Edward looked so happy that Sophie rejoiced for them .
17 Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Inglewood , California-based Locus Computing Corp say that Locus 's Merge MS-DOS-under-Unix is now available as SCO Merge for all Santa Cruz Unix System V/386 systems ; it runs MS-DOS applications as Unix processes on iAPX-86 machines .
18 It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) .
19 We heard the door behind us open but Benjamin shouted for everyone to stay out .
20 And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for .
21 The principal constraint on the number of their disagreements is , indeed , the comparative rarity of their encounters , Raymond invariably being asleep when Vic leaves for work and out when he returns home .
22 Actually , the use of this final pronominal element is quite transparently a way to regain attributive status for the adjective which precedes it , and its use with certain adjectives ( to be introduced below ) which do not genuinely occur in predicative position is thus much more significant than Bolinger allows for , showing that there are values attached to attributive status which are more important than mere position in the sentence relative to the verb , and that speakers will even seek to conform to these by devising an attributive construction which would otherwise not be called for .
23 In the output equation the unpredictable monetary growth variables do have a significant , positive effect on real output , although the impacts of and are less significant than Barro found for the US .
24 They were both astonished and Lomas stopped for a moment to stare at the floor .
25 Willie at last chose a comic with his sweet and Tom paid for them .
26 Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga .
27 Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga .
28 I was duly astonished when Harley asked for his putter and sent Derek Jefferson ahead to hold the flag .
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