Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Getting on for 50% of the money spent on advertising goes into television , and more like 70% in big agencies .
2 Ted Heath ( I really ca n't get that knighthood out ) , looking spot on for Ascot , leads a bunch of frontbenchers and a gaggle of rubber-neckers out of the chamber for ceremonial fraternisation with the Lords and then back .
3 Sooner or later it seems everything becomes collectable ; old telephone boxes , ancient park benches , and now the hunt is on for lamp posts , from all over the world , as Richard Hudson-Evans reports .
4 Seven or eight times out of ten , this is the phenomenon which greets those in the deliverance ministry when they are called on for help .
5 Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own .
6 In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries .
7 Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations .
8 Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) .
9 ‘ This produced a pretty farcical scene really with us both stopped on the track , but I managed to get away and hang on for second .
10 The first is that after an initial period single parents should be required to name the father of their children when signing on for welfare .
11 With initial allocations of income at point 1 on for B and for A , there are clearly gains from trade to be had from the lowering of both incomes as long as adjustment is contained within the usual rugby ball shape .
12 She was wearing the dumb preppie blouse her mother liked her to put on for school and , of course , the Iron Maiden .
13 When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative .
14 When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative .
15 You 'll see , they 'll quarter the soldiers on us , but the king 's officers will be pushing on for London as fast as they can . ’
16 Trials are presently on for selections .
17 On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court .
18 Before the action came on for trial the defendant applied for an adjustment of his liabilities under the Liabilities ( Wartime Adjustment ) Act 1941 .
19 Crozier sought to delay the making of the statement on the ground that it defamed him and might prejudice the jury in Barnet 's action against him , which would come on for trial some six months later .
20 Hunt on for Mersey 's top businesswoman
21 But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment !
22 It 's just a little game Tom puts on for visitors .
23 I could go on for minutes on end .
24 On the patio , some Italian children were rehearsing their contribution to the show being put on for parents that evening .
25 Meredith-Lee was a bit of a lefty — the sort of chap who would be all on for worker participation and that kind of rot .
26 While I just put these few beans on for dad that we do n't like in the microwave .
27 The show goes on for Swindon , that 's for sure .
28 Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’
29 And EVERY day there is something going on for mum and dad or the kiddies .
30 Cruising round Beachy Head & Lighthouse to visit Eastbourne £9 ( concs & under 16 's £4.50 off ) or stay on for afternoon cruise ‘ round Royal Sovereign ’ £13.95 ( cons & and under 16 's £6.95 off ) . .
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