Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honestly , you 'd think it was Antony coming back for Cleopatra the way she 's carrying on ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | They ate breakfast standing , Riven wishing momentarily for coffee . |
| 5 | The team was unchanged from Soton , except for Fairclough coming in for Newsome ( to counter Flo 's aerial threat ? ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the next day was doleful : Mr Evans in a bad mood because he had eaten too much and Auntie Lou tiptoeing about for fear of making things worse and so annoying him further . |
| 10 | To be fair , he did also point out that neither did Yorkshire 's Asian population flock in droves of more than three or four to see the hero from the subcontinent in action ; but then he may be aware , as so many apparently are not , that the prospect of seeing a Hindu lad from Bombay doing well for Yorkshire — as he assuredly will — is not exactly high on the agenda for the Pakistanis who form the greater part of the Asian population in those parts . |
| 11 | It 's an unimaginative , misogynistic rehash of Body Heat , with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger substituting inadequately for William Hurt and Kathleen Turner . |
| 12 | We have Bill Clinton calling symbolically for Americans to ‘ take their country back ’ , while his entire political career demonstrates abject surrender to the big corporate interests of Arkansas . |
| 13 | Kneeling in the Rectory pew of Loxford church , Anna watched Peter preparing deftly for communion . |
| 14 | Hardly a week passed without Anna Essinger setting off for London on a fund raising mission , invariably returning with promises to sponsor more refugee children . |
| 15 | The Teesdale is the only secondary school in Oxfordshire catering exclusively for children with special needs , and they seem to like it . |
| 16 | Underwoods winging in for Test double |