Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 2 | Conflict with authority : Family members may repeatedly try to cover up for the misdeeds of the primary sufferer and may be exceedingly angry with various authorities when they themselves are found out . |
| 3 | Realising the vindictive nature of this man , and knowing how he had conditioned her husband since he was a child , Beth felt obliged to look out for the interests of those she loved . |
| 4 | When he leaves here , he faces four tournaments — Antwerp , Toulouse , Paris and Wembley — in five weeks to tune up for the Masters on 27 November . |
| 5 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 6 | Sterland announced his return to fitness by saying : ‘ I am picking up my training steadily and looking to turn out for the reserves in the middle of next week . |
| 7 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 8 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 9 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 10 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |
| 11 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 12 | It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December . |