Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 2 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 3 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 4 | The Borough , willing enough to disparage and hunt down Grimes , cares little for the fate of his apprentices , though Crabbe is never as explicit as Slater is in the libretto . |
| 5 | In fact , ultimately ( as " the most honest theoretical man " , Lessing , perceived ) he cares more for the search after truth than for truth itself . |
| 6 | Anybody who " ramps " or causes " ramping " of USM stocks in this way cares more for the profits on his own transaction profits possibly running into thousands of pounds than he does for those of his clients . |
| 7 | His counterpart in ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ — George Wickham — stands also for the rejection of society 's standards , but he turns out to be a rake and a liar — a totally unsuitable match for any of the Longbourne girls . |
| 8 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 9 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 10 | Someone who cares passionately for the quality of his ingredients is top chef Raymond Blanc . |
| 11 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 12 | Day Two : At 8.00am breakfast is on the table and your cruiser casts off for the sail to the ancient spa town of Bad Schandau . |
| 13 | As for all other committees , the target for this committee , for nineteen ninety-four , ninety-five , allows fully for the effect of inflation from November nineteen ninety-two to November ninety-three . |
| 14 | Imaging their amazement as the single peach on the tree grows to enormous proportions and James climbs aboard for the journey of a lifetime . |
| 15 | Integrated Session — the second week of each session — when the whole group — friends and helpers — gathers together for the sharing of a sacred experience as the family of God . |
| 16 | It is important to begin with this sense of perspective , lest the impression be given that politics exists only for the benefit of those who practise it — a kind of hobby ( or , better still , paid profession ) for an educated élite who compete among themselves for the ‘ prize ’ of being on the winning side that forms the next government . |
| 17 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 18 | Most running lines used by Railfreight are shared with at least one other sector , though there is a not insignificant mileage which exists purely for the benefit of freight . |
| 19 | The Association exists purely for the benefit of assistant managers . |
| 20 | It may be that it exists essentially for the purpose of meshing sentence-construction with pragmatic principles ; for example , for " foregrounding " and " backgrounding " informational content ( or , in the terms preferred in this book , for eliciting certain pragmatic implications ) . |
| 21 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 22 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 23 | The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire . |
| 24 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , there were further calls yesterday for the scrapping of local government reform following the disclosure that the Scottish Office accepted that errors were made in costings by its consultants , Touche Ross . |
| 26 | In her decoration ‘ Lilith ’ ( Museum Boymans-van Beuningen , Rotterdam — watercolour sketch at the Tate Gallery ) it is as if she has taken one of these nudes and stood her against a tree , where , with arms wrapped around her head and one leg twisted into the other she writhes provocatively for the pleasure of the viewer . |
| 27 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 28 | Just think of how many people will walk past and subconsciously absorb your band 's name on a sticker which is on a high street lamp post , even if it only stays there for a couple of days . |
| 29 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |
| 30 | The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town . |