Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 2 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 4 | Once that 's secured and defended at least once , Weir wants to go for the flyweight title , held until recently by Pat Clinton . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to fight for the world title and to do it against a fellow Brit would be just great . |
| 6 | If you forget to allow for the backspace time , you may find that this time margin has been reduced noticeably — the pan may even start before the backspacing is complete — and this will not look good on the screen . |
| 7 | Finally , since all too many non-payers were simply ’ wo n't payers ’ , sponging on the rest , I hope that we will provide all the powers necessary to ensure that never again are my constituents expected to pay for the law breakers . |
| 8 | Marsh was always expected to return for the World Cup , and Waugh , with this superb innings , made it extremely difficult for the selectors to ignore him too . |
| 9 | In any case , all this helped to prepare for the militarist attitude that the party was to take when war came , when it could advocate conscription without any fear of the electoral consequences . |
| 10 | Their creators will often claim that they are also designed to cater for the club player who will play off different tees but , on the more extreme courses , I wonder if this is really true . |
| 11 | My mother helped to cater for the funeral tea , which were community affairs with everyone helping . |
| 12 | ‘ Attendance at external courses must be justified against training objectives or be seen to acquire for the county library some new or up-date skill/ knowledge/experience which would otherwise be a noticeable gap ’ . |
| 13 | I hope to arrange for the Broadcasting Committee to consider the issue at an early date . |
| 14 | There was full consultation between family heads at each stage of the project and only a handful of families , mostly shop-owners , opted to wait for the Government supply which reached Perteguhan 18 months later . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's true , ’ Anne agreed , ‘ but I think he should have been made to suffer for the way others suffered through him . |
| 16 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 17 | What made you choose to work for the holiday complex ? |
| 18 | Conservatives have decided to do for the freedom fighters what the American left of the '30s did for the Communists in Spain . |
| 19 | Begin this pan with a few seconds of static shot ( remembering to allow for the backspace time ) and continue the shot for a few more seconds when you reach the end of the pan . |
| 20 | We have shown that in over 110000 deliveries there are only small , non-significant differences in perinatal mortality rates between hospitals when the place of booking is considered and that these are further reduced when adjustments are made to allow for the risk factors known at booking . |
| 21 | Instead of making directly for it , I followed a track that seemed to make for the Foulness road , about half a mile beyond the village or hamlet marked as Crabtree Wick . |
| 22 | Do you elect to go for the drop goal or go for the try ? |
| 23 | Mr Marshall 's fair used to come for the feast weekend and , in 1914 , he again contributed to the effort by offering to play sacred music on his fairground organ after the Sunday church services , with a collection for the hospital funds . |
| 24 | I leaned over to Nick Wells and said : ‘ I 'm never going to vote for the death penalty . ’ |
| 25 | Having devoted most of his political life to touring constituencies and union branches , he has barely needed to campaign for the constituency section of the executive over the past two months . |
| 26 | It now requires the Scots ' nerve , and more importantly their defence , to hold firm against Norway at Hampden next month to earn the point still needed to qualify for the World Cup finals in Italy next summer . |
| 27 | The theory can be used to account for the gas laws described above . |
| 28 | Deffenbacher ( 1983 ) reviewed the literature available on the relationship between emotional arousal and eyewitness testimony and concluded that the results were consistent with the idea that the general inverted-U relationship between arousal and performance could be used to account for the memory findings . |
| 29 | How word meanings combine is a key question when attempting to account for the way discourse is understood . |
| 30 | For example , it is capital expenditure that will finance the development of a new leisure centre while current expenditure will be used to pay for the running costs , for example staff , heating and lighting , etc . |