Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teesside Crown Court was told Ninham had offered to give the boys money for fireworks and encouraged them to go for a walk with him and his dog . |
| 2 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 3 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 4 | There seemed no hope now , nothing to go for except a curiously marked pocket which fitted two finger tips . |
| 5 | because there 's nothing to go for . |
| 6 | Take the baskets that hold them out of the pool and allow them to drain for an hour . |
| 7 | You presumptuous monkey , she told him , there 's nothing to wait for , I 'm not going to marry you . |
| 8 | Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries . |
| 9 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 10 | They have short attention spans so do n't expect them to sit for hours on end without fidgeting , yawning or falling asleep . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 12 | The Peerage Act 1963 now enables them to sit for all . |
| 13 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 14 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall . |
| 16 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 17 | Emmie said , ‘ Mr Sargent likes me to go for walks with him . |
| 18 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 19 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 20 | What people make of them is their business , and if they have something to hide then you ca n't expect me to weep for them . ’ |
| 21 | These included giving families reproductive choice in future pregnancies , enabling them to plan for the future with a disabled child , avoiding the experience of a delayed diagnosis , and identifying a presymptomatic cohort who might benefit from future treatments . |
| 22 | The aims were to give families reproductive choice in future pregnancies ; to enable them to plan for the future with a child with a disability ; to avoid the experience of a prolonged diagnosis ; and to identify a presymptomatic cohort who may benefit from future treatments . |
| 23 | I met Jane Toler at a party , and , homing in on my angularity of form , she asked me to sit for her . |
| 24 | Well let's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court . |
| 25 | Electronic handbooks , which are sold as a complement to Mathcad , give desktop users on-line access to textbooks , enabling them to search for , use and even transfer information into their own documents . |
| 26 | ‘ Pertwee told me to wait for Charlie Hatton , ’ Cullam said . |
| 27 | Before I could comment , a nurse came to fetch her to see Harry , and she went anxiously , calling over her shoulder for me to wait for her ; and when she returned half an hour later she looked dazed . |
| 28 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 29 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 30 | Told me to wait for the horse to lift its tail . ’ |