Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Immigration and Customs people at Ramsgate had been instructed to watch out for the Renault 18 but to keep a low profile and let it through . |
| 2 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
| 3 | I think we should have all what we 're going to have in for the bazaar thing , . |
| 4 | You 'll probably find when you register you 're invited to go along for a new patient medical anyway , and all sorts of things like that . |
| 5 | By the way the lot of seemed to be played in Hertfordshire these days , and one of the great days is at Harpenden and that 's on September the first on Sunday , when they have their annual single-wicket competition , and that 's a great local event and it 's bound to encourage all the young cricketers in the neighbourhood , they 're trying to make up for the lack of cricket in schools , so well done Harpenden and that is on Sunday next , er , er , first of September and I 'll give you the time in a minute if I can find it , when it is , it does n't say , but it 's probably all day at the Harpenden club , well done Harpenden encouraging young people to play cricket , Sunday first September . |
| 6 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 7 | The car , a Sierra , had been stolen on Thursday night from nearby Bilsdale Close and neighbouring forces have been alerted to look out for a stolen blue Ford Orion , registration number H814 FYM , which may also have been used in connection with the incident . |
| 8 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 9 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 10 | For example , he stumbles into this howler on the question of social security as cash , rather than provision in kind : ‘ Social security benefits have been introduced to make up for the withdrawal of more general provision : examples in the UK are free prescriptions ( introduced because prescription charges were introduced ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 11 | I say to him [ husband ] I 'm going to clear off for the day and you can do it all one day , and you 'll see what it 's like . |
| 12 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 13 | Although the military authorities soon vacated the school to move into Doncaster Racecourse across the road , the re-opening of the school had been delayed and the Christmas holidays had to be cut to make up for the loss of time . |
| 14 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 15 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 16 | He had spent the morning painting picturesque views and quaint scenes for his master , and had been allowed to knock off for a smoke . |
| 17 | She thought it might be the one that was always being made to speak up for the others , but she could n't be sure ; it 's difficult to tell one beetle from another . |
| 18 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 19 | BUDDING soccer stars are being invited to sign up for the Reebok Fives national tournament . |
| 20 | In one task — rhyme monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word which rhymed with a cue word given in advance ( e.g. doubt ) . |
| 21 | In the other task — category monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word belonging to a particular semantic category ( e.g. fish ) . |
| 22 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 23 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
| 24 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 25 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 26 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , if you got too close to him you were tempted to look around for the source of the odour — perhaps there was an overdressed salad in the vicinity ? |
| 28 | In East Africa , travellers were advised to watch out for the variety of indigenous ‘ types ’ to be seen at railway stations , from the Islamic , partly Arabized , Swahili of the coast , to the Kamba and Kikuyu of the interior , and then , a special treat , the magnificent Masai , bearing their shields and spears in a sadly peaceable demonstration of subjection , before reaching the Nilotic peoples of the shore of Lake Victoria . |
| 29 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 30 | The officers had been warned to look out for a red Ford Sierra car following the shooting , in the early hours , of Special Constable Goodman and PC Kelly during a routine vehicle check on the A64 Leeds-York Road . |