Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched as the mare completed a second circuit in canter , waiting for her rider to ask for the gallop . |
| 2 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 3 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 4 | Roseau 's appeal to members of his association to vote for the Gaullists carried considerable weight . |
| 5 | The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone . |
| 6 | The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 8 | In their world it is not the father of the bride who digs into his pocket to pay for the wedding . |
| 9 | These words of Monsignor Guardini , written nearly thirty years after my early musings , expressed a growing need in my thinking to account for the Buddha in the providence of God . |
| 10 | Finally , when they get back home once again they are ‘ in demand ’ , and it is in their nature to work for the family again and put their own wants or needs to the bottom of the pile ! |
| 11 | However , there were no other factors in our patient to account for the acute haemolytic episode , and ascorbic acid induced haemolysis in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency has been reported . |
| 12 | Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years . |
| 13 | Alessandra Mussolini , granddaughter of Il Duce , has been a hit with photographers , although only the foreign press have paid attention to her pretence to campaign for the neo-fascist party . |
| 14 | At fifteen , Melanie went with her mother 's permission to her doctor to ask for the Pill , but this was refused . |
| 15 | The county council will have to ask colleges to bid for money on its behalf to pay for the vocational adult education courses it runs . |
| 16 | Some are the head of the family with husband and children dependent on their salary some are single parents and some rely on their income to provide for the shortfall in their partner 's earnings . |
| 17 | Not long afterwards she left the cabin , and Edward returned to his bunk to wait for the ship to sail , to take him back to Sweden . |
| 18 | Special thanks too Gordon for sharing the whole weekend with us , and I ask you on his behalf to pray for the people of Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 20 | The validity of any model of global tectonics must be judged by its ability to account for the distribution and characteristics of these major structural regions . |
| 21 | Social services are standing by their decision to pay for the 14-year old to stay at his grandparents ' villa , but refused to talk about the inquiry . |