Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 2 | she sez she heard screams saying please for god sake stop and she ran to fetch her husband to see if he could help . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | Of the second wave of Irish films gearing up for release , only one has not been made by a British director . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That left the banks paying more for funds , but unable , for a long time , to raise the cost of mortgages to compensate . |
| 9 | Were they a group , he wondered , or just individuals travelling together for comfort and security ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was a recent television series called Heroes II — The Return , which brought the memories flooding back for Bernard Seyburn . |
| 12 | They rushed at the table from all sides , scrambling over stools , jumping down from top bunks like pigeons clattering down for crumbs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Samaritans in Hereford have noticed a growing number of farmers ringing in for counselling : |
| 15 | During the two-week break before Billy opened in London , White revised the whole show 's choreography to make the most of designer Ralph Koltai 's massive sets , which included staircases appearing and disappearing , scenes sliding off and on , high overhead platforms sliding forward for dancers , a back projection screen being lowered , and streams of coloured lights . |
| 16 | With many electricity supply contracts coming up for renewal at the end of March , the first fruits of the Government 's privatisation policy for the industry are ripening , much like the olives growing in the Department of Energy 's new atrium at the centre of its London offices . |
| 17 | Much has been made of the contracts coming up for renewal with the main power generators in the United Kingdom — National Power and PowerGen . |
| 18 | But whether one walks through these parts of Docklands or through surrounding areas where the ‘ ripple effect ’ is supposed to be taking place , there remain run-down estates crying out for funding , for modernisation and for improvement . |
| 19 | Small blooms of fire exploded all around the sandbagged post and the steel door , the defenders huddling down for cover . |
| 20 | It likes to rent its chalets to whole groups travelling together for £500 to £1,000 each half-board — not cheap but a bargain for what you get . |
| 21 | With ‘ white-collar ’ activities coming up for CCT , the care given to the preservation and legal status of those records will become much more important . |
| 22 | There are other groups starting up for carers , some backed by local Age Concerns and other voluntary organisations such as the National Council for Carers and their Elderly Dependents . |
| 23 | The stuck needles in me and wheeled me in and out of X-ray rooms peering inside for evidence of the impacted fracture they were sure I had . |
| 24 | Those are figures for the number of 14 to 18-year-olds staying on for training or full-time education . |
| 25 | At Ards , doctors have reported an increased number of patients coming forward for treatment for insect bites and stings . |
| 26 | He has lots of ‘ budgie ’ pals dropping in for cups of tea and chats . |
| 27 | ] The Secretary of State strongly endorsed the idea of patients shopping around for treatment to cut waiting times [ … |
| 28 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 29 | In Presbyterianism it will be by attendance at the quarterly communions , and in Anglican Churches with a central or evangelical tradition the most accurate measure will be the numbers at Easter and possibly Christmas communion , although in some churches these two seasons will present difficulties if there is a tradition of members going away for holidays or to visit relatives at these times . |
| 30 | One hypothesis consistent with our findings is that the defect might occur in genes coding either for MHC proteins or for T-cell receptor proteins . |