Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 2 | So we opt for the tried and tested T-shirt or , even worse , baggy shorts and a button-through overshirt . |
| 3 | So we settled for the International Press Centre … |
| 4 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 5 | As the T1 determines how long it take for the magnetic resonance signal to recover after each image , a long T1 — that is , 1–3 seconds as in water , determines the maximum image frequency achievable in continuous , long duration experiments . |
| 6 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 7 | Now , in terms of naming these always you go for the longest straight shape that you can , by straight straight really is in inverted commas what we should really say the longest continuous chain that you can find in other words , you 'd have to go back on yourself . |
| 8 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 9 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 10 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 11 | Hence we get for the magnetic flux density |
| 12 | Now I die for the last time . |
| 13 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 14 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 15 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 16 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 17 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 18 | Here she speaks for the first time about her ordeal to Margaret Hall . |
| 19 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 20 | Here we demonstrate for the first time that TFIIA is also involved in the expression of classical pol III genes ( t-RNA , VAI-RNA and 5S-RNA ) . |
| 21 | Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule . |
| 22 | At least we did for the longer |
| 23 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 24 | ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us . |
| 25 | Then he worked for the British . ’ |
| 26 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 27 | Determination to deal with the situation " properly and once and for all " but coupled with the confusion of not knowing precisely what to do for the best , particularly in the face of vast quantities of advice all of which seems perfectly clear — except that it directly conflicts with other equally vast and equally clear advice from other sources . |
| 28 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 29 | Yet she remains for the modern reader perhaps the most intriguing member of the entire family . |
| 30 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |