Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she sez she heard screams saying please for god sake stop and she ran to fetch her husband to see if he could help . |
| 2 | 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pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 3 | Were they a group , he wondered , or just individuals travelling together for comfort and security ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At Ards , doctors have reported an increased number of patients coming forward for treatment for insect bites and stings . |
| 8 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 9 | ‘ This idea about men caring only for money and status , ’ Nathan said thoughtfully , ‘ is it a long-held opinion , or one you 've arrived at recently ? ’ |
| 10 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 11 | They return to the government which massacred the students demonstrating peacefully for democracy in Tiananmen Square in June . |
| 12 | We had decided very early that a useful little earner would be to provide B & B facilities catering mainly for railway enthusiasts and the building and grounds should therefore be returned to something like their original appearance . |