Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 2 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 3 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 4 | In December a conference of donors pledged more than $1 billion in aid for 1991 , including relief supplies for the central province of Zambezia , where at least 250,000 people were forced off their land last year by rebel or government attacks . |
| 5 | Lord Ackner stated that : There is clearly no reason in English contract law why A , for good consideration , should not achieve an enforceable agreement whereby B , agrees for a specified period of time not to negotiate with anyone except A in relation to the sale of his property … |
| 6 | Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull . |
| 7 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
| 8 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 9 | When one goes for a major adventure like tornado you hope that most of the difficulties are are ironed out , clearly they 're not , another set of difficulties emerges . |
| 10 | An NIS Domain licence goes for a one-time fee of $25,000 . |
| 11 | An NIS Domain license goes for a one-time fee of $25,000 . |
| 12 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 13 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 14 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 15 | Stripes always look good when they are vertical and the same goes for the soft edges of these stripes . |
| 16 | The same goes for the inductive reasoning by means of which scientific knowledge is derived from the observation statements . |
| 17 | Gallons of intoxicating percussion guided rhythms fuel ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ like a train rampaging along an empty track as it goes for an energetic jog in the shadows , pacing along a tireless circuit . |
| 18 | Coaxing the car through London , Dominique longs for the empty roads of Europe . |
| 19 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 20 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 21 | In The Tempest verse again stands for a superior ethos in stark juxtaposition with prose . |
| 22 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 23 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
| 24 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 25 | Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin . |
| 26 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 27 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 28 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 29 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 30 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |