Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have finished , go back over the whole list and circle those four or five things that you would like to work on for yourself over the next week or so . |
| 2 | It was a demoralised Don Peters who drove away from The London Hilton and the all-American farewell party that had been laid on for him by Clancy McGillicuddy . |
| 3 | Further culinary delights await Kate and her husband when they visit the French capital a special dinner will be laid on for them at La Maison Androuet , the city 's speciality cheese restaurant . |
| 4 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 5 | Give me two minutes Johnny , and we 'll put it on for you at last ! |
| 6 | There are there 's a little hanging on for you from my Scottish holiday . |
| 7 | The BBC switches it on for you by remote control smart card technology and training material is sent through the post . ’ |
| 8 | That was every Christmas there was a party of some sort put on for us at school . |
| 9 | While we 're promoting my own show and blowing my own trumpet , er this afternoon Jenny is on for my for me this afternoon . |
| 10 | Arrived at the office , the publisher sent down for him by Laurence , the boy with spots . |
| 11 | His advance had been laid down for him in definite terms , and he held to it , but taking his own precautions along the way . |
| 12 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 13 | I did write it down for her in the list . |
| 14 | ‘ When the lawsuit was beginning , before he could possibly have known about it , he wrote this down for me on a bit of paper . ’ |
| 15 | Is this what you promised me — roots laid down for me in France ? |
| 16 | ‘ While you are waiting for God to write it down for you in capital letters , ’ Anna had shouted finally , exasperated out of all diplomacy , ‘ I shall decide for you both . |
| 17 | You wo n't find the answer written down for you in the bowl of a compass — I can tell you that . |
| 18 | In such a context the interests of the State must in my judgment mean the interests of the State according to the policies laid down for it by its recognised organs of government and authority , the policies of the State as they are , not as they ought , in the opinion of a jury , to be . |
| 19 | I 'll come down for it after lunch . |
| 20 | ‘ Another chopper should be along for you at any minute , old chap , but why not go and wait in your van until it arrives ? ’ |
| 21 | She felt herself to be of right there , to have a place upon its departure platforms , and the London train drew in for her with a particular significance . |
| 22 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 23 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |
| 24 | I 've rather doubt that he might not be and , and then Bert er , has very kindly said that he would erm , stand in for him to second this resolution . |
| 25 | A rescue team went in for him at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday , 9th September , and returned to a fresh air base in Bank Mine at 2.45 p.m . |
| 26 | He thought with envy of the young locum doctor standing in for him at home , seeing his patients at this very moment , and then he thought of his ex-wife , and his ex-cat , which used to sleep on their bed , and then with interest and longing of flukes , the flukes of absorption that can at least put the unforgettable at some merciful remove . |
| 27 | ‘ Knowing your superb taste , Uncle , it sounds as if we 're in for something of a treat , ’ Naylor replied . |
| 28 | That is the first thing you should do with any burn , put people in a cold bath , anything to keep the burns cold because otherwise they can keep burning in for something like five hours . |
| 29 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 30 | So put down , I 've only just missed two things out on health , there was the breathing and erm should be standing in for me on all four feet behind but not four it 's quite normal |