Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 I am writing to ask for the co-operation of your Institution in a survey of Language in Teacher Education which is being carried out by the NCLE .
2 In response to your advertisement in the Bedfordshire Reporter , I am writing to apply for the post of secretary/ receptionist .
3 I am trying to account for the paradox of the sameness of so many accounts , in language , of the strange , the exotic , the new .
4 And although I am now tired , very cold and extremely hungry — with a headache into the bargain ! — I am compelled to continue for a little while longer .
5 ‘ I 'm patient and I 'm determined to fight for a regular place . ’
6 The second leg of our yankee is the eight forty five , well this is a sprint race ; two fifty metres , only erm only go round two bends , and therefore you have to have some erm early pace sort of erm greyhounds , and I 'm going to go for a trap one here , Chair Boy 's Blue , he 's already won plenty over this erm shorter trip .
7 erm And here , I 'm going to go for an outsider really , erm I 'm going to go for Ashfield Charlie erm in trap two , Tommy Foster from Wimbledon trained runner this is .
8 I suppose you do realise that I 'm planning to stay for the weekend ? ’
9 I was caused to go for a walk to get some fresh m-m-m-m-m-m —
10 JUNE 20 : Today I was selected to play for the village .
11 At the recent Annual Parish Meeting of Nether Wyresdale I was asked to press for the extension of the pavement at least as far at the end of the existing hedge .
12 It was an enormous poster of various garden birds which I was asked to do for the school office .
13 Some time later , I was persuaded to try for a spot in the formidable writer 's Waterloo that is the NME Subs ' Room .
14 I was going to ask for a couple of hours off and then he says , oh do n't bother !
15 We 'd had dinner and were on our way back to the hotel when I told him I was going to go for a walk before going to bed .
16 You really think I was going to fall for a line like that and hand Barry over to you ? ’
17 Er I told him I was going to try for the Co-op .
18 And there was a point where I was going to look for a job , drift off and forget about it .
19 My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out .
20 They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking .
21 1897 the Royal Navy conducted a punitive expedition against Benin ( in what is now Nigeria ) and brought back to Britain a large number of bronze castings which were sold to pay for the raid .
22 They will keep this addition , which is intended to compensate for the VAT they can not reclaim .
23 The project to encourage the otter is being backed by the National Rivers Authority , which is helping to pay for the artificial holt :
24 Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation .
25 Four friends will be keeping pace with him on the ground , carrying all the spares he might need for a flight which is expected to last for a month .
26 He fought back the word ‘ sorry ’ , which was threatening to erupt for the third time .
27 Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade .
28 And how , pray , will this affect the attitude of the ‘ innocent ’ who are made to suffer for the ‘ sins ’ of the ‘ guilty ’ ?
29 Wolves , who are beginning to look for a place in the promotion play-offs , hit back in the second half after Scott Sellars had poached a fine first-half goal .
30 Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning .
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