Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 2 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
| 3 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 4 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Gilman employed ‘ scientific ’ experiments described by him as follows : ‘ The observer , an intelligent man with good eyesight , and well accustomed to museums and their contents , was instructed to answer the questions with the least possible exertion and to hold the position he needed to assume for the purpose until he could be photographed . ’ |
| 7 | He and Maureen decided to live for the day and not worry about what the future would bring for them , good or bad . |
| 8 | I loved to stop for the night but dreaded the effort of making camp . |
| 9 | I decided to make for the orchard and the safety of my own trench . |
| 10 | By making this distinction , Miliband sought to account for the fact that the state is not always an instrument of the ruling class , even though , in terms of ownership and control of the economy , a ruling class clearly existed . |
| 11 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 12 | Lynagh elected to play for the try and history now records his match-winning touchdown in the corner when brilliantly scooping up David Campese 's desperate in-field pass . |
| 13 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 14 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 15 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |