Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gareth Rees , the gifted Canadian fly-half has already signed for the French club Merignac , a side captained by Philippe Berbizier , the brother of Pierre . |
| 2 | ‘ Boon has always cared for the ordinary man and woman — old ladies who need help in the post office or the bloke in the pub who breaks down and confesses he 's being hounded by loan sharks . |
| 3 | The organic movement has always fought for the continued availability of unpasteurised milk . |
| 4 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
| 5 | I think the time has now come for the National Heritage Memorial Fund to be split and a separate body established for Scotland . |
| 6 | When asked how he has chosen between the various versions of the same subject by Titian , Laclotte says that he has simply aimed for the best . |
| 7 | The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines , ZCCM , will be asked to pay for the environmental damage it has allegedly caused for the last 24 years , under the terms of the recently-approved Environment and Pollution Act . |
| 8 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |
| 9 | It has , overall , captured less big-name , big-salary work than Russell Reynolds , but it has become well known for the efficient and speedy handling of a wide range of assignments within its pioneering structure of speciality divisions . |
| 10 | ‘ Not what you 'd call well placed for the passing trade . ’ |
| 11 | A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , Angus Fletcher joined P&O Properties in 1987 as assistant to the P&O Group Surveyor , having previously worked for the Inland Revenue in the Chief Valuer 's Office . |
| 12 | He will then have hurriedly made for the large sloping putting green , where professional golfers will have been holing putt after putt from 10 feet . |
| 13 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 14 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 15 | Yevgeny Primakov , Mr Gorbachev 's envoy in Gulf matters , had already appealed for the full ground war to be delayed until the Iraqis cough up their answer . |
| 16 | So if you could precis or select from the text that you 've already prepared for the annual report , something that will go in there that says why your functions are |
| 17 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 18 | Jarvis had set up a trestle table on that terrace where pupils had once assembled for the annual school photograph . |
| 19 | It is simply due to the fact that the diffused , little defined , fitfully manifested and sometimes sub-personal presence of God as Spirit which we found in the Old Testament , becomes clearly focused for the first time in Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 20 | The previous Director , Tomás Llorens , had originally planned for the permanent collection to open in January 1991 , but a variety of circumstances , including differences with the Ministry of Finance and a change of Directors , have conspired to delay the opening for seventeen months . |
| 21 | Early in June 1689 Edinburgh Castle , which had been held for James , surrendered , but Blair Castle , at Blair Atholl in Perthshire , eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , had now declared for the Jacobite cause . |
| 22 | God , thought Dalziel as he had frequently thought for the past twenty years , you 're the most miserable-looking bugger I ever saw . |
| 23 | It was not clear from the report whether they had even applied for the available student loan or help from their college 's access fund . |
| 24 | Significantly , however , the PAC , which had consistently called for the immediate transfer of power from the white minority , agreed to negotiations with the de Klerk regime . |
| 25 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |
| 26 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 27 | But by the time of the Hinkley C Inquiry , the CEGB had firmly opted for the Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 28 | Campion Price had never cared for the emotional welfare of his wife — let alone his daughters ! |
| 29 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 30 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |