Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house . |
| 2 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 3 | Eyes down for a full house . |
| 4 | As I see it , you get your bills in for a certain amount and you 've got to pay it . |
| 5 | If Baldwin met Parliament , Lloyd George might keep the Conservatives in for a few weeks to humiliate them . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na put me feet up for a few minutes , do you want now we 've nearly finished ? |
| 7 | Boxing : Sky lines up for a classic TV fight : Neil Wilson on the big battle of the small screen and growing threat of the extra terrestrial to the conventional channels : ‘ We 're not averse even to putting major sport on our movie channel .. |
| 8 | Sunsail is willing to organise virtually anything , from regattas to simple fun days out for a small group ; you could charter all 15 of their 36ft yachts , or just sail a dinghy around the Solent . |
| 9 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 10 | Indeed , he and his mates had driven to a house in East Belfast straight from the fracas , to try and tee some pals up for a quick retaliation . |
| 11 | In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks . |
| 12 | Andy Dannatt lost the ball in the tackle and from the scrum Edwards sent 18-year-old winger Jason Robinson sidestepping through from 30 yards out for a sparkling try . |
| 13 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 14 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 15 | Instead John Major invites 200 carefully selected friends along for a cosy chat about how rosy the Tory garden is . |
| 16 | The Villa boss , who has his own obsession to win the title after being sacked by United for failing to land the coveted prize , took his Villa players out for a post-Christmas celebration . |
| 17 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 18 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 19 | She had to leave the floor , they had to walk , that 's right , they had to walk on the concrete floor without tiles on for a long time |
| 20 | Wrappers off for a super festive show |
| 21 | The entertainments manager wants to hear Frank sing and gears up for a rip-roaring session , at which the hapless hero launches into ‘ Early One Morning ’ — echoes of the audition Crawford did as a child for Benjamin Britten 's production of The Turn of the Screw . |
| 22 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
| 23 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |
| 24 | " The " roos will come from miles around for a green field " , said a spokesman for the Australian Wheat Board . |