Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had reports for disobeying orders , getting involved , stopping an officer doing what she should be doing , just through sticking up for my girlfriend . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ Nothing worth sticking around for here . |
| 3 | Eyeing the police car , she wondered whether it belonged to Officer Hassan and whether it was worth hanging around for a word with him . |
| 4 | ‘ Thanks for sticking up for me , ’ he snapped at last , an unmistakable sneer in his tone . |
| 5 | GOOD on Tatum O'Neal for sticking up for herself . |
| 6 | If you have any doubts about your ability to fix a burst pipe , a storm-damaged roof , or a boiler that does on the blink , it may be worth signing up for Homercare , the new 24-hour emergency repair and assistance service from Europ Assistance . |
| 7 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 8 | At the turn of the year , clients dithered about signing up for consultancy projects . |
| 9 | ULSTER spacers have been shy about signing up for inter-galactic travel . |
| 10 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 11 | ‘ Ghosts ’ at least demonstrates that the music does n't have to have the speed of a cocaine-snorting cheetah to create the energy and is worth checking out for this alone . |
| 12 | A few of the songs here appeared on Setzer 's ‘ The Knife Feels Like Justice ’ records , but this new LP is still probably worth checking out for the rumbling ‘ ( Do n't Sell My Daddy ) No More Whiskey ’ . |
| 13 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 14 | So after toddling about for a while you go into Barries ’ and point out the shorts where they lie in the window , interleaved with their fellows . |
| 15 | Wright battled back into the senior side and scored in the Mersey derby defeat at Everton — but only after filling in for injured Steve Nicol and David Burrows . |
| 16 | After wandering about for a while she finally got her bearings and found the splendid staircase that led to the grand hall and the main entrance . |
| 17 | After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire . |
| 18 | Mr Venables of Lilac Grove , Whitby , Ellesmere Port , collapsed at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going out for a drink in May . |
| 19 | A WORKER was fired after nipping out for a Coke and ice during a 15-hour shift at a sweltering print works , a tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 20 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |
| 21 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We found Prune Island , as Palm was known in those days , after calling in for a spot of sight-seeing . |
| 23 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 24 | Racecourse officials and race starter Capt Keith Brown could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism . |
| 25 | Aintree race course officials and National starter , Capt Keith Brown , could also face heavy fines after coming in for stiff criticism . |
| 26 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |
| 27 | The single-engine Socata vanished from radar screens after taking off for Mull from Blackpool on Saturday . |
| 28 | After washing up for five days , the 4th Bottesford Pack in South Humberside raised enough money to buy daffodil bulbs which they planted beside their church car park . |
| 29 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 30 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |