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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | And the advice was on the back of the most comprehensive research ever carried out for a new paper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Three thousand tabs of Ecstasy were handed over for a thick wad of notes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 22 | But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery . |
| 23 | Changing machines means a new contract , so the company are locked in for a fresh term , again of up to nine years . |
| 24 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 25 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 26 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 27 | If the complaint turns out to be more serious or if agreement can not be reached on a resolution , it must be referred back for a full investigation . |
| 28 | A lot is laid on for a pro golfer , but not as much as is for a team player . |
| 29 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |
| 30 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |