Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 2 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 3 | Yet the world we live in cries out for more critical and creative solutions to many , pressing problems . |
| 4 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 5 | The new puppy is very timid with strangers but now she is old enough to go out for walks , we have found she is growling at other dogs . |
| 6 | The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality . |
| 7 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 8 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 9 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 10 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 11 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 12 | The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire . |
| 13 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 14 | Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 17 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 18 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 19 | The overall result is a collection of beautiful and ironically harmonious expressions of pain which literally cry out for some of the vibrancy and hopeful energy of Mama Mosambiki . |
| 20 | The overall result is a collection of beautiful and ironically harmonious expressions of pain which literally cry out for some of the vibrancy and hopeful energy of Mama Mosambiki . |
| 21 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 22 | If any gent takes notice of thee it 'ud be with only one thing in mind , so th 'd better watch out for th'self . ’ |
| 23 | Daniel had better watch out for him in his rear-view mirror . |
| 24 | ready boxed up for you |
| 25 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 26 | We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One . |
| 27 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 28 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 29 | So he goes out there and they all turn round and say , stuff you , I 'm not coming in to clean up for four pound and hour which again equates to six pound an hour . |
| 30 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |