Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport . |
| 2 | However , on Saturday , October 10 , it is pencilled in for a proposed Newcastle to Maryport via Leeds , Skipton and Workington special , returning to Bradford Forster Square . |
| 3 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 4 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 5 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 6 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 7 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 8 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 9 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 10 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 11 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 12 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 13 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 14 | And the advice was on the back of the most comprehensive research ever carried out for a new paper . |
| 15 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 16 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 17 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 18 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 19 | Powerful amplifiers can be turned down for a small hall , but a weak amplifier has no potential for increased volume before it starts distorting the sound . |
| 20 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 21 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 22 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 23 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 24 | Three thousand tabs of Ecstasy were handed over for a thick wad of notes . |
| 25 | The charity already has plans drawn up for a ten-bed hospice at Middlesbrough to care for terminally ill people and contractors are currently submitting tenders for the work . |
| 26 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |
| 27 | Even agreed syllabuses , drawn up for a particular locality , only suggest ideas and very general outlines ; if given in any detail they will be more or less inappropriate for this particular pupil or this actual class . |
| 28 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 29 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 30 | But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery . |