Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A file should exist online for the module but can not be found . |
| 2 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 3 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 4 | Nothing , according to Slater , will make up for the fact that Alpha is three years late to market . |
| 5 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 6 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 7 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 8 | But no amount of talking could make up for the unhappiness and lost innocence of my childhood . |
| 9 | Dublin said : ‘ I hope my first goal will now help me settle and show I can score more for the club and the fans who have been so good . ’ |
| 10 | If one wished to do so , one could sign up for the directive while keeping the 1908 legislation in force . |
| 11 | I shall sleep here for the night and start home in the morning . ’ |
| 12 | The Department of the Environment would pay largely for the building and the Department of the Education and Science for the works of art , reflecting their respective spheres of responsibility . |
| 13 | ‘ It might mean overtime for the physio but we need all our strikers fit to face the Reds . ’ |
| 14 | ah , just a sec we will go away for the day if my |
| 15 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
| 16 | ‘ I shall hang it in the kitchen for a week , ’ she said , ‘ and then you can go out for the evening and I will have bread sauce and fried breadcrumbs , and game chips and red currant jelly and watercress and pheasant . ’ |
| 17 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 18 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 19 | And the other one , seeing as it was like September October , getting cold , my mum said well the bed 's empty , you might as well come in for the winter and stay here . |
| 20 | She gave me the tip she 'd put aside for the waitress and then raided her purse again to replace it . |
| 21 | It therefore did n't add up for the government or the CEGB to argue that nuclear power provided such an enormously valuable insurance cover . |
| 22 | We 're just taking a bag , we 'll come back for the rest when the wind 's gone down . " |
| 23 | and after you 've gorged yourself on all the fun and nightlife that Benitses has to offer , you can turn in for the night and leave it all behind . |
| 24 | that 's it , and they do , you can shop around for the insurance and that like |
| 25 | Now , by early spring 1837 , Darwin had decided that such purely adaptational explanations could not account adequately for the timing and placing of either the extinctions of old species or the origins of new ones . |