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

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1 We also sought to provide a link for residents of Murieston to Livingston centre while the Murieston area is still developing , rather than wait for the completion of this housing area before taking action .
2 Work also began to develop a scheme for training and accrediting clerks who advise suspects in police stations .
3 The incident also appeared to provide a pretext for the government to institute harsher measures against the student demonstrators .
4 If they really wanted to find a motive for the murder , they should grill Mrs Sweet .
5 It was an error because the fishmonger immediately started to cut a steak for her .
6 He saw the question of how such contrarious genres as fabliau and romance could co-exist in medieval French literature as a critical problem , and consequently tried to identify a source for a taste which could explain the proliferation and regularization of fabliau , the narrative and comical substance of which he accepted as being ubiquitous .
7 For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ .
8 They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue .
9 ‘ The press was always very kind to us , giving us so many free editorials that we never had to pay a penny for advertising .
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