Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requests have always been turned down usually for financial reasons . |
| 2 | Anandi Ramamurthy , a freelance educational gallery tutor brought in specially for this project , was commended for the way she made viewing interesting and easy to understand . |
| 3 | We go in mainly for first editions of the classics but we do have some rather nice botanical books , floras mostly , sought after for their plates … |
| 4 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 5 | Yet the volunteers had been beavering away down there for two months , working well into the night on many occasions , and were to be there for many more months to come . |
| 6 | Last week , the computer broke down completely for 36 hours and it is claimed this may have resulted in up to 20 deaths . |
| 7 | The bigger surprise still is in sixth place good old Hartlepool United who 've not gone down anywhere for 23 seasons . |
| 8 | Yeah that 's what I mean , could you put a tourniquet on just for ten minutes to try and get help ? |
| 9 | It did n't read like some pick-up place where everyone went off together for topless holidays ; nor did it make it seem as if it was your fault for not having a social life . |
| 10 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 11 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 12 | Fletcher is worried that half of England 's winter tour party will be at home for little more than a week before flying off again for pre-season trips with their counties . |
| 13 | You would think that they were — thankfully — drawing to a close , and then they would burst off again for another hour and you found yourself wishing they would just shut up . |
| 14 | The 20-mile chalk stream has dwindled to a trickle , and it dried up altogether for long periods in the past three drought years , after the drilling of six drinking water boreholes by the Thames Water Authority ( now the Thames Water company ) lowered the water table . |
| 15 | I think you deserve the full 40 lashes for sticking up fiercely for liberal values — I 'm always liberal with my whip ! |
| 16 | Stretch up gently for 10 counts . |
| 17 | Stretch up gently for 10 counts holding each count for 1 second . |
| 18 | Stretch up gently for 10 counts . |
| 19 | Raise the arms towards the toes , lifting the head and shoulders off the floor as far as possible without straining.Continue stretching up gently for 10 counts . |
| 20 | Stretch up gently for 20 counts , pulling up a little further with each count . |
| 21 | Stretch up gently for 20 counts , pulling up a little further with each count . |
| 22 | Stretch up gently for 15 counts , pulling up a little further with each count . |
| 23 | Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’ |
| 24 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 25 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 26 | Some experts say that even if the eruption stopped today , the sheer pressure of lava piled up behind for six miles would bring debris cascading down on to the town anyway . |
| 27 | Clubs and other organisations which are set up purely for sporting purposes can not normally be recognised as charities and would not be able to enjoy the relaxations proposed . |
| 28 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 30 | At the end of the treatment period the subjects with a persistently normal urinary albumin excretion ( less than 30 mg/24 h ) were left untreated and followed up regularly for this variable . |