Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 2 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 3 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 4 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 5 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 6 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
| 7 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 8 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 9 | Quelch resigned from the editorship in 1889 in order to work full-time for the New Unionism , but returned to the editor 's chair in 1891 and remained editor until his death . |
| 10 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 11 | And when he 'd finished and been weighed again and she 'd changed his diaper and put it in the special container to go away for the chemical analysis — And a nasty old job that must be to do ! |
| 12 | you 'll have to go elsewhere for the actual paper . ) |
| 13 | ‘ Since coming home , I have played for Wasps against Cambridge and for England against South Africa , so I need three tough Divisional fixtures to sharpen up for the international championship . |
| 14 | On a number of occasions , I have been glad to set out for the hon. Member in response to his questions in the House detailed information about the contents of the computer records and how many are held on the system at any one time . |
| 15 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |
| 16 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 17 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |
| 18 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 19 | Very easy plant to grow even for the absolute beginner . |
| 20 | The plan was for Richard and Philip to meet at Vézelay on 1st April 1190 and then to leave together for the Holy Land . |
| 21 | In the crucial areas of international relations the state still dominates and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future . |
| 22 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 23 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 24 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 25 | And it was funny , the carrion crows use to keep away for the whole week nearly . |
| 26 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 27 | However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets . |
| 28 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 29 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 30 | IT just has to be every teacher 's nightmare — to turn up for the new term and face TEN sets of twins . |