Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points .
2 A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning .
3 The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population .
4 In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs .
5 The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train .
6 The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment .
7 This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air .
8 It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger .
9 And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me .
10 Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim .
11 However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise .
12 ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ .
13 In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security .
14 ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says .
15 Among the women themselves there 's the feeling that you hope for the best and expect the worst , a deep pessimism that patriarchy rules and scarpers without paying the bills .
16 ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked .
17 ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’
18 No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’
19 She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect .
20 It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all .
21 Erm , and I feel very strongly , and I urge members to consider that we should support this as a matter of principle , to help er , that group of our society , I me , I was going to suggest an amendment that we ask for the average age of this council erm ,
22 I want it to have the money for the investment that it needs to build the phone service that we require for the 1990s .
23 I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting
24 Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen .
25 That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice .
26 One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally !
27 I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose .
28 The arguments given in favour is that we vote for the wise and then the wise go on to make a proper final decision about who 's best .
29 We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again .
30 It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia .
  Next page