Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got Lyn who 's due to go back for a month erm end of May for most of er June , upstairs |
| 2 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 3 | So we 'll get that checked out for you Alan and we 'll |
| 4 | Yeah I know , I 've got that pencilled in for something . |
| 5 | I was chronically frustrated by the city 's killing of time : all those coffees and slow pints , all that hanging about for other people . |
| 6 | Make better use of your base cabinets by fixing slide-out towel racks to the doors , and by installing swivel storage shelves to do away with all that groping around for things at the back . |
| 7 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 8 | Oh I 'll get that sorted out for you . |
| 9 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |
| 10 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 11 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |
| 12 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 13 | They are scarcely free to shop around for the officer who would give them the easiest time . |
| 14 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 15 | He genuinely like women , and he liked people who were prepared to stand up for themselves . |
| 16 | These were people who knew how the business worked , understood local markets — and were prepared to stand up for what they knew and believed . |
| 17 | In keeping with their true natures , some look out for a dealer who has passed it , and beg him to sit it again , for them . |
| 18 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 19 | He spends all day on the practice ground sometimes and this paid off for him at the German Open . |
| 20 | Would you be prepared to look out for him ? ’ |
| 21 | Stay cool with iced drinks this summer and for entertaining look out for this attractive recycled glassware from Montezumas . |
| 22 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 23 | Tigani , who had two trainers before moving to Mowbray House , is another to look out for . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're quite willing to cover up for him . |
| 25 | This opens up for debate the question of what can be done , at each level of the system , to fix some problem . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , all this moving around for work . ’ |
| 27 | It was easier to mine in for two reasons : firstly , if you mined the stone , massive amounts of earth did not have to be shifted before the stone could be got at , and secondly , the men of Swaledale and Wensleydale , many of them experienced lead-miners , had all the knowledge and expertise necessary to dig stone from the mine , and furthermore labour was plentiful because of the decline of the lead industry . |
| 28 | There is a range of wall finishes available , so be prepared to hunt around for one you like or one which most closely matches your house . |
| 29 | A parody and a paradox : it is by their very inertia in the ways of the social laid out for them that the masses go beyond its logic and its limits , and destroy its whole edifice . |
| 30 | The archers cut them down — a few broke back for home unscathed . |