Example sentences of "[verb] for [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 2 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 3 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 4 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 5 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 6 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 7 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 8 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 9 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 10 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 11 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 12 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 13 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 14 | ‘ You ask : how do you advance the public interest , how do you provide for it in the best way ? ’ |
| 15 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 16 | It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious . |
| 17 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 18 | Perhaps they will spawn for you in the new tank . |
| 19 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 20 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 21 | ‘ With the Smart Rope , the condition of the rope being hired is visible and the hirer can sign for it in the full knowledge of its condition , ’ says Jim Oag . |
| 22 | To help your GP prescribe for you in the best possible way , from April 1991 , what is called an ‘ indicative prescribing scheme ’ will be introduced . |
| 23 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 24 | Yes you normally pay for it in the following year . |
| 25 | Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system . |
| 26 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 27 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
| 28 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 29 | If we want something , then we go for it in the best possible way we know . |
| 30 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |