Example sentences of "[verb] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 2 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 3 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 4 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 5 | People want to be able to borrow for their homes or businesses in a currency where the interest rate is not exorbitant . |
| 6 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 7 | It is unlikely , but some creditors may yet have to sue for their money . |
| 8 | 5.5 Title to the goods comprised in each consignment shall not pass to the Purchaser until the Purchaser has paid their price to the Seller , but , even though title has not passed , the Seller shall be entitled to sue for their price once its payment has become due . |
| 9 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 10 | However , in accordance with the conventions of the time , and because of his anticipated death , much would remain for his executors to arrange . |
| 11 | And it 's our intention that that land should remain for our children 's children 's children , that 's the first point . |
| 12 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 13 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 14 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 15 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 16 | The laity , therefore , became reluctant to invest in their local churches , while an impoverished ecclesiastical establishment had few resources to spare for its buildings . |
| 17 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 18 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 19 | To wait for their enemy , the ordinary people of Famagusta had made their way to the heart of the city , where the Cathedral soared like a vast triangled reliquary , flanked by princely buildings and faced , across the piazza , by the handsome , doorless shell of the Palace . |
| 20 | They demand more resources for the school in their areas : they complain vociferously if they have to wait for their operations ; they demand that the state intervene to subsidise the price of the rail tickets from their commuter homes to their work . |
| 21 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 22 | At home , where an admiral 's powers were much more restricted , and even the most favoured officers could expect to have to wait for their promotion until the end of the admiral 's period of command , when it was customary to make him the compliment of a few promotions on striking his flag , it was still possible to introduce new entrants to a seagoing life . |
| 23 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 24 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 25 | There was a row of five chairs where people sat to wait for their turn . |
| 26 | Accepting shareholders will have to wait for their cash for that period . |
| 27 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’ |
| 29 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
| 30 | Sir Leon said there was no need for the United Kingdom to wait for its inflation rate to reach the European average before joining the exchange rate mechanism , nor to hold back until the further removal of capital and exchange controls next summer . |