Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When I complained , the company said there was a clause on the processing envelope that said if anything went wrong , it only had to pay for the film .
2 It is worth remembering that , at the moment when Manhattan 's business thus began to reach for the skies , New York 's Lower East side was probably the most overcrowded slum area in the western world with over 520 persons per acre .
3 When my father died , his brother Perry generously undertook to pay for the education of Brian and myself .
4 We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol .
5 Military , police and reconnaissance experts immediately began to prepare for the arrival of the 14,000-strong force in the UN-protected areas of Eastern and Western Slavonia and Krajina , three Serb-held enclaves in eastern and southern Croatia .
6 A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden .
7 Debbie disappeared just the same and then rang to ask for the money .
8 The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course
9 Those who found the fee then had to cram for the multiple-choice examination , learning words and grammatical phrases even native speakers would find difficult .
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