Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 2 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 3 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 4 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 5 | * the user has perhaps to budget for the cost of the item , and will wish to maximise the value for money he or she can obtain from the expenditure ; * the user has to cope with the consequences of late delivery , faulty products , breakdowns and servicing requirements ( etc ) ; * the user will be concerned with product reliability and supplier reputation . |
| 6 | One of the few collectors dedicated enough to go for the company context is Peter Card , whose collection of 400 old bicycle lamps is without equal . |
| 7 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 8 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 9 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 10 | To a man of Panmure 's connections this was not a particularly difficult matter in time of war , even with the qualification which the Lyells made to their request , that ships about to sail for the West Indies were not acceptable , but it was clearly a very material favour to the family concerned . |
| 11 | Are you painting the pictures when you 're asking the questions ? if you could , fine , good empathy , you doing a good fact find , right let's do a presentation shall we , let's see erm , ooh , you do n't know how to ask for the order do you ? |
| 12 | There appears to be a general assumption that women should somehow automatically know how to prepare for a baby , but this is simply not the case . |
| 13 | What is anatomical basis of this orientation selectivity ? ( personal communication ) suggests an answer which is reminiscent of that proposed by to account for the ability of octopuses to recognize spatial patterns . |
| 14 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
| 15 | But with a few well-chosen books you can know where to look for the information you need . |
| 16 | The UN Security Council , meeting in closed session on Feb. 26 , agreed not to call for a ceasefire until Iraq had agreed to comply with all 12 relevant resolutions . |
| 17 | Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail . |
| 18 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 19 | They work out how much money to feed back to pay for the inputs for the next year , and the remainder is profit . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps you would do well to rest for the night and journey on by daybreak , ’ said the Oak . |
| 21 | He has travelled home to prepare for a World Championship heat in Austria . |
| 22 | There is no question but that VSEL strived genuinely to compete for the order , and put in an effective bid . |
| 23 | Will the Salters ' chemistry A-level syllabus form a reasonable basis for those students going on to read for a chemistry degree at university or polytechnic ? |
| 24 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 25 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 26 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 27 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 28 | They won 61% of the vote for Congress in March , but only 27% in December ( when far fewer people turned out to vote for the assembly ) . |
| 29 | They 've clubbed together to pay for the instalation of two video cameras , which scan the only road into the neighbouring villages of Purton and Halmore . |
| 30 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |