Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 2 | He and Liena conversed for a while before he announced his decision to wait there for the return of Tony and Ferdy ( the Germans ) , and Dave the American , asking me to take care of Liena on the way down . |
| 3 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |
| 4 | Mick was there first and climbed onto the tailboard to pull out for the rogue two of Paddy 's cans ( a fact which Paddy was slow to forget ) . |
| 5 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 6 | And the police have alerted banks , building societies , pubs and traders to look out for the notes . |
| 7 | At the SCG I was impressed with the way the South African pace bowlers tightened line and length after somewhat loose opening period of play no doubt caused by first-time tension and over-eagerness to do well for the folks back home . |
| 8 | Ruari and Ranald normally lazed about , cut peat , or borrowed a boat and rowed out to do a bit fishing to stock up for the winter , while Luch did her usual tasks and her usual check on the baby — the babies , now — in the bower . |
| 9 | This has been the frequent and characteristic complaint of those ( in my experience few ) historians who have explored the New Historicism : the representation of history is idiosyncratic and selected to reflect the preoccupation of the literary critic , not an attempt to account accurately for the period . |
| 10 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |
| 11 | His landlord wants him to pay a further $170 to make up for the deposit that 's gone missing . |
| 12 | KENNY Dalglish is poised to bring in a Danish defender to make up for the disappointment of losing £2.5 million Craig Short . |
| 13 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 14 | Nicholson had taken LSD , but he had first done so , he said , as a quest — an adventurous actor seeking experiences to file away for the future . |
| 15 | ‘ the encouraging fact is that in most areas there is capacity to allow both for the protection of the countryside and to build the number of houses we need . |
| 16 | There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen . |
| 17 | The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany . |
| 18 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 19 | The other source of inspiration — and indeed guidance — for the research was an experiment by William Hayward and his colleagues at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York ( Nature , vol 290 , p 475 ) , Their work on a virus-induced lymphoma of birds inspired the researchers to look specifically for the myc gene — rather than for any of the 13 other known proto-oncogenes . |
| 20 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 21 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 22 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 23 | When he leaves here , he faces four tournaments — Antwerp , Toulouse , Paris and Wembley — in five weeks to tune up for the Masters on 27 November . |
| 24 | At this hypermarket more than half the booze sales are to English shoppers , they come from as far away as Yorkshire to stock up for the Christmas part season . |
| 25 | Her years in London bad merely strengthened her desire to live there for the rest of her life , and while she was there her mother seemed , most of the time , to be no more that a dreadful past sorrow , endured and survived . |
| 26 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 27 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 28 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 29 | There was another stream to drink from , perhaps an opportunity to visit some of the gorge 's ‘ five considerable caverns ’ , and in the scene as a whole , images enough for Coleridge to store up for the poetry of the future . |
| 30 | Fionnphort absorbs uncomplaining the onslaught of coachloads of tourists and pilgrims , but not today , not yet , for we are early , leaving the tourists in their boarding houses to queue irritably for the bathroom and linger over their bacon . |