Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 2 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 3 | One woman had a friend who constantly let her down for appointments , a lunch , an evening out , by either not turning up , being very late or changing dates at the last minute . |
| 4 | Business can tell us they are unable to work with Labour , the City can hijack a Labour Government by sabotaging the economy , but they 'll only show themselves up for what they are a power-mad cartel with no regard for the British people . |
| 5 | All right I mean all right she did so that one of the guys would perhaps carry it around for you . |
| 6 | They only let us out for baths if there was enough staff , otherwise you had to have a strip wash . |
| 7 | Greyson Gemmell comes in to win it back for Forest . |
| 8 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 9 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd only loan him out for someone like you , Travis . |
| 11 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 12 | It 's very good quality , erm yeah , I think it 's , it 's it 's , the quality of it is good enough to put it up for , i in the sort of higher echelon of marks . |
| 13 | So you have to get a man in to line them up for you before you put them in . |
| 14 | So you have to get a man in to line them up for you before you put them in . |
| 15 | ‘ I think , ’ the policeman was saying , ‘ I 'd better take her in for a little talk . ’ |
| 16 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 17 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 18 | A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least . |
| 19 | In the absence of any other guidelines it is best to start the design of the artwork by defining the above factors , perhaps listing them out for reference . |
| 20 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 21 | Constantly putting yourself up for rejection just because you 're grown-up now wo n't help your self-esteem . |
| 22 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 23 | So Bennett was instructed to go to AM Sir John Slessor , Commander-in-Chief , Coastal Command , and literally fight it out for their share of the new 3cm H2S . |
| 24 | We ca n't accept these conditions for our employees so sign 'em up for the G M B and fight for their rights . |
| 25 | But when you want to heat the bedrooms up you ca n't , unless you only have it on for a bit you know . |
| 26 | The awesomely powerful heating and ventilation system makes another jet-like roar , but it works so well that you only need it on for short bursts . |
| 27 | The Government 's present position is one of scepticism about the value of a ban on tobacco advertising , but Secretary of State William Waldegrave has said ‘ I do not rule it out for ever , certainly : but it is just not the highest priority at the moment … |
| 28 | Just checking it over for test . |
| 29 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 30 | ‘ I would bring something back for someone else but I would not bring it back for myself . |