Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coleman & Co. successfully applied for an adjournment of his examination to enable evidence to be filed in support of his summons . |
| 2 | 1 If you can get a coach or supervisor then go for it ! |
| 3 | One does n't miss the odd stem in a large clump , and you can also divide old clumps in spring or autumn , planting the surplus into rows in the vegetable garden or allotment purely to cut for the house . |
| 4 | Shoes first , then a towel , soap and toothbrush ; and stockings and knickers , of course , and room enough left for her handbag , gas mask and a warm woolly scarf . |
| 5 | Do the major social divisions of class , gender and ethnicity really account for the differences ? |
| 6 | Most of mining has taken place on greenfield sites , and the quality of restoration and aftercare rarely compensates for the loss of visual appeal or wildlife habitat of the land sacrificed for so- called cheap energy . |
| 7 | Despite the high hopes of Penal Policy in a Changing Society , recognizable authority in the shape of detection , arrest and prosecution still counted for more than prevention . |
| 8 | But he proved , when he joined the illustrious band of Yorkshire bowlers to take 1000 wickets for the county , that experience and craftsmanship still count for much in a game which seems to reserve its greatest acclaim for the lean , young gunslingers . |
| 9 | Over the past three years , Scowcroft , whose son and daughter also work for the group , has gradually sold 75% of Swinton to Sun Alliance , for a total of £105 million . |
| 10 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 11 | Industrial style uses hard-edged black and grey , and furniture originally designed for hospitals or factories . |
| 12 | His memory of her , which for years , a traitor to grief and to their love , he had resolutely tried to suppress because the pain had seemed unbearable , had gradually been replaced by a boyish , romantic dream of gentleness and beauty now fixed for ever beyond the depredation of time . |
| 13 | Her voice became defiant : ‘ And what time did you and Dad ever spare for us ? ’ |
| 14 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 15 | Even without his well , he proved the reliable crowd-puller and money-spinner he had been bought to be , although neither records nor general report substantiate the enormous revenues and popularity sometimes claimed for him . |
| 16 | Key to the improvements has been the reduction of bureaucracy and paperwork previously required for each truck load . |
| 17 | The combination of fire and family probably account for the striking personalities of Ella Burrows and her daughter . |
| 18 | Science and technology still accounted for the largest group of students , though recruitment for technology was encountering difficulties in Britain generally . |
| 19 | But apathy often works for the status quo . |
| 20 | But danger still lurks for the Tories . |
| 21 | But HP also hopes for sales from heavy transaction processing users , taking advantage of MPE 's 20% to 30% performance advantage when running commercial TP applications , and from mainframe downsizers , more comfortable with MPE 's mature systems management infrastructure when compared to Unix . |