Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 2 | Harry himself scored 53 League goals for Palace and two in the FA Cup ; how many he laid on for other forwards we can only guess at . |
| 3 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 4 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 5 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 6 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 7 | this season we 'll be cheering louder than ever for our three teams … in the new first division we 've got Oxford United … they 've new owners and new heart after escaping relegation … we 've first division football at the County ground as well … where style and skill have always been swindon town 's hallmarks … this time around they 're hoping for strength too … in division three Hereford United have been rebuilding … they 're going continental with a player-coach instead of a manager … so for the best season ticket sit down for Central South … . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 9 | The government linked the cuts with the need to contain public spending in order to meet the economic convergence criteria laid down for European Community economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 10 | A startling 24 failed to meet standards laid down for public water supplies . |
| 11 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 12 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 13 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 14 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 15 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 16 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 17 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 18 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 19 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 20 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 21 | Hopefully this time the bolts will stay in for good , as chopping and replacing them ( something which now seems an annual event ) is causing untold damage to this superb pitch . |
| 22 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 23 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 24 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 25 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 26 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 27 | It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) . |
| 28 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 29 | The Forestry Commission has declared its intention to expand forestry , particularly of the broadleaved variety , at " down the hill " locations — a move away from recent tendencies to afforest uplands with conifer plantations , which have come in for extensive criticism [ see section on Pollution : Air in this issue ] . |
| 30 | Superficially attractive and officially , if implicitly , condoned by UNESCO , this theory has come in for severe criticism from Western media interests and journalists . |