Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elena has now returned for more plastic surgery and although her family does not have to pay for the treatment , there will be hefty travelling expenses to meet during the next few years . |
| 2 | The explanation proposed here accounts for this fact in the following way . |
| 3 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 4 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom has recently called for more training in educational methods for all university teachers . |
| 5 | The information contained on the questionnaires was then copied to computer input forms specially designed for this purpose . |
| 6 | After several public meetings to discuss plann-ing matters the bureaucracy were left confounded , much to the delight of the ratepayers who may have only attended for that reason ! |
| 7 | The Church of England as the major provider of denominational schools felt amply compensated for this loss by the new rate subsidies . |
| 8 | You may be expected as well to have already worked for some time in a related financial area , such as stock broking . |
| 9 | It is generally felt that in the past local authorities have dragged their feet in taking on their responsibilities to care for mentally disordered people , and the Minister of Health , Roger Freeman , outlined further plans for this group to Parliament the day after Secretary of State Kenneth Clarke 's speech on community care ; these were , clearly , some last-minute additions to the government 's package of proposals . |
| 10 | Do you get well paid for this job ? |
| 11 | We can and do sometimes charge for this time , but where there are significant PR benefits for the Garden and its activities , and companies are not willing to pay , we do not charge . |
| 12 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 13 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 14 | ‘ I had better ring for another cover to be laid . ’ |
| 15 | As the bomber hung up Eileen had already reached for another phone to warn the police . |
| 16 | The first and foremost , most people do n't like using them , but secondly we 've already paid for this service in our rates and taxes , you know , when we pay our rates though , we pay for these toilets to be clean and all that sort of thing do n't we ? |
| 17 | When the Bank of Scotland had threatened to imprison his Constable partner Robert Cadell in Calton Hill Gaol , Cadell took refuge in the debtors ' sanctuary at Holyrood — where Thomas de Quincey had also stayed for some time . |
| 18 | Rhoda he had also known for some time . |
| 19 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 20 | This is an important subject which is likely to remain actively debated for some time . |
| 21 | Teachers have long called for more opportunity to get on with what they regard as quintessentially " their " work ; they should normally welcome the opportunity to off-load tasks which can just as effectively be performed by other people . |
| 22 | I have long yearned for this meeting — even before the king my father 's passing . |
| 23 | His own research on female undergraduate students of physics provides further support for this conclusion ; many of them explicitly dissociated themselves from the male physics students and their ambitions . |
| 24 | What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility . |
| 25 | So I map out a route over familiar country near home which takes in some old hedges and one-time mushroom pastures , hoist a gathering bag over my shoulder — and then curse the fact that the mid-October day that I have carefully planned for this expedition turns out to be the most dismal of the autumn so far . |
| 26 | The proportion of women candidates was at 29.4% the highest we have yet discovered for any tier of local or central government . |