Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each pair was then vortex mixed for six seconds and centrifuged for 10 seconds , the supernatant stored , and the procedure repeated . |
| 2 | Each pair was then vortex mixed for six seconds and centrifuged for 10 seconds . |
| 3 | Vinod Kambli ( aged 18 ) and Sachin Tendulkar ( 17 ) appear destined for full Test careers , although yesterday 's partnership of nought was 644 runs fewer than the one they shared in a schools game two years ago . |
| 4 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 5 | Those who advise students say the pressures on those who seem destined for great things is enormous . |
| 6 | but now and again there 's some like erm sub-circuits or whatever , sub programming that you 'll appear right there 's Mermaid Towers right , you appear and you get trapped for seven years listening to this old man |
| 7 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 8 | I wondered if it was you when we first got news of the Abbey — no insult just that some people get picked for some jobs . |
| 9 | Who else but Daly could be humble enough to offer to withdraw from the 1993 US Ryder Cup team if his team-mates do n't want him , and get fined for fast play , officials deciding he was in contempt by completing the second round of the TPD Championship in just over two hours . |
| 10 | ‘ That way , we would save the contractor 's connection charges of over £40,000 — and get paid for each load . ’ |
| 11 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 12 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 13 | Stepan Verkhovensky kits himself up with umbrella , travelling-bag , walking stick , broad-brimmed hat , belted overcoat and top-boots like a hussar 's ; and — Quixote overlaid for English readers by Pickwick , the White Knight , Mr Toad — he talks the language of ‘ high adventure ’ and the open road : ‘ there 's a great idea in the open road too ! ’ |
| 14 | In Amazonian Annonaceae and Nymphaeaceae , beetle pollination tends to be fortuitous by contrast , e.g. scarabs on Nymphaea spp. in lakes , though in Victoria amazonica , there are four species of dynastid beetle attracted by scent and temperature ( 11° above ambient ) : these become trapped for 24 hours and feed on starchy carpellary appendages before leaving with pollen . |
| 15 | Sparhawk , just back from questing in the Elenium , ready to claim the kingdom and woo the girl , discovers that his creator David Eddings does n't give him much time to breathe , and he 's off again : the A format of Domes of Fire ( Grafton , £4.99 ) is out this month — stay tuned for further instalments . |
| 16 | He 's six foot two , blue eyes and curly hair , and all the girls are mad jealous because we 've fallen for each other . |
| 17 | I 'll tell him who you are , and what you 've done for Russian art , etc . |
| 18 | When I think what I 've done for that boy . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not leaving here until we 've done for that bastard . |
| 20 | After all you 've done for that family . |
| 21 | The work I 've done for other people , getting things together , making things happen , sheltering the homeless , getting them fed — and as often as not , paying for it . |
| 22 | I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament . |
| 23 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 24 | This is the first proper daylight I 've seen for two months . |
| 25 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 26 | because if one division , we know how many , each d i if we 've got for each division the number of agreements , the number of sessions , the number of staff we 've got three common factors , different numbers obviously |
| 27 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 28 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 29 | I 've got a pewter-coloured Strat Plus which I 've had for two years now . |
| 30 | " We think Silverweed is one of the best poets we 've had for many months , " said Cowslip . |