Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 2 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 3 | Writing on an LCD does n't come naturally , and even 5.5lbs is heavy to carry around for half a day . |
| 4 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 5 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 6 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |