Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun sg] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 2 | Educated at University College London ( 1879–83 ) in general science , Hatch qualified for the gold medal and Tuffnell scholarship in analytical chemistry in the intermediate science examination in 1881 . |
| 3 | Do you elect to go for the drop goal or go for the try ? |
| 4 | On Aug. 29 , 1990 , the government announced drastic energy-saving measures to reduce fuel consumption , including the introduction of rationing vouchers to achieve a 50 and 30 per cent cut in petrol and diesel supplies for the state sector and private vehicles respectively . |
| 5 | The whole story is that I was asked to ride Docklands Express , Cool Ground , Auntie Dot and Bonanza Boy in home gallops for the television cameras and then to compare the quartet . |
| 6 | In order to provide a direct comparison between the programs developed for the turnkey system and those for the associative modeller , the same mechanism was analysed on each . |
| 7 | They may also come to contract for the community health and care services their patients need , taking over from the social services departments or competing with them . |
| 8 | The physicists lived for the emulsion trails and double checked to see if they were interpreting them correctly . |
| 9 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 10 | Yet this is not surprising when one realizes that both were close to the docks and that the iron foundries in their areas were more conveniently situated for the timber yards and wharfs along the north bank . |
| 11 | But no film or lecture can prepare for the culture shock that awaits the new tourists to the sub-continent when they arrive early tomorrow in Delhi . |
| 12 | She made for the study door and he wanted to say , ‘ I would n't if I were you ; he 's in a tear about something , ’ but he knew that even if he did speak it would n't deter her . |
| 13 | They entered for the block plan and the Foreign Office only , and submitted eleven drawings in all . |
| 14 | Thus reassured , I head for the exhibition halls and spend the day collecting promotional leaflets and free samples of new products that I have n't the faintest intention of buying . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’ |
| 17 | In 1924 , with the slogan " Keep Cool with Coolidge " , he easily retained the presidency for the Republicans , carrying 35 states to the Democrats ' 12 ; 15 million Americans voted for him , while 8 million voted for the Democrat candidate and nearly 5 million for Robert La Follette , a Progressive " third party " candidate . |
| 18 | The student living in lodgings is invisible in terms of qualifying for the council tax and does not add one jot to the amount that the widow or anyone else would have to pay . |
| 19 | I did n't even wait for the curtain call and the audience must have seen me charging through the lobby as they made their way out . |
| 20 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 21 | We had a room booked for the Christmas dinner and we did n't have the courage to go ahead with it , because we did n't feel we could sell the tickets . |
| 22 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 23 | I know if I get into trouble again I 'll be done for the arson charge and breach of probation , and that means a few years in jail and I could n't handle it . |
| 24 | ‘ The bulls going to Perth are selected for the suckler men and tend to fit into a tight price band . |
| 25 | BACKFRIEND is the first to be selected for the Design Centre and is now exported to 17 countries . |
| 26 | The various lawyers acting for the pressure groups that advocate the law breaking are saying that the Shops Act 1950 is not extant and that the referral to the European Court of Justice implies that the 1950 |
| 27 | thousands have needed and received confidential academic and financial advice , have written for the campus newspaper and presented shows on Scotland 's only campus radio station . |
| 28 | JENNI Potter 's latest play written for the company Sex & Violence is set , as usual for this Liverpool writer , in the homosexual world . |
| 29 | Freelance writers : A good deal of the material written for the magazine press and to a lesser extent for newspapers is produced by freelance writers . |
| 30 | First approaches to Adult Education Authorities should have already been made for the Autumn term but it is still worth getting on their lists . |