Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 2 | You 're always gon na have objections , I think you 've seen so far , throughout the whole sales process , some are more awkward than others but you got by them but the majority will come when you ask for the business , or go to ask for the business . |
| 3 | This MAY be fair criticism — but we do nt know what he s being told or asked to do for the team . |
| 4 | For we can easily imagine a legislative structure that would produce compromise statutes mechanically , as a function of the different opinions about strict liability or racial discrimination or abortion among the various legislators , without any legislator being asked or required to vote for the compromise as a package . |
| 5 | As a result seventeen players were suspended for six months , fined a total of £900 , and forbidden to play for the club again . |
| 6 | The unit accepted it was its fault and has apologised for the delay , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Shell has admitted full responsibility for the spillage of a hundred and fifty tons of crude oil into the Mersey last August , and has apologised for the slick which killed 300 birds and injured 2,000 others . |
| 8 | Homoeopathy has therefore become a postgraduate study and has to rely for the recruitment of its practitioners on those members of the medical , dental , veterinary and pharmaceutical professions who are open-minded enough to try new approaches . |
| 9 | " What Spanish regime " , he enquired rhetorically , " at any time , has been more productive in carrying out its tasks and has created for the Nation , in any respect , wealth comparable to that created up to now ? " |
| 10 | Mr Sellar , 26 , was previously service engineer at the company and has worked for the company since it was set up . |
| 11 | He spent two years with the Link-Up community theatre group and has directed for the Compass Theatre . |
| 12 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 13 | Similarly Marxism is wrong in seeing the problems of modernity as exclusively the result of the capitalist system and attempting to account for the behaviour of a Stalin or a Khruschev , or a Mao Tse-tung or a Hoxha in terms of the cult of personality while at the same time ignoring the lack of moral constraints on the exercise of power in modern Marxist states . |
| 14 | The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party denounced the name change and vowed to fight for the right to continue to use its name . |
| 15 | Antony grinned in resignation at Connon and began searching for the tablecloth . |
| 16 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 17 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 18 | The smell of lighting barbecues drifted in , and the buzz of gentle conversation as guests returned to their villas and apartments to put the children to bed and get changed for the evening . |
| 19 | Turn round day is a bit hectic for us , so we suggest you pack your bags in the morning , leave them in our safekeeping , and disappear to explore for the day ! |
| 20 | Then followed the 4500 , the first ribbing attachment — which worked on some days and not on others ( on the latter I would give up and stop knitting for the day ! ) . |
| 21 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |
| 22 | At about 10,000ft ( 3300m ) we broke out of the trees into an area of grassland that looked vaguely like a Scottish moor and decided to camp for the night . |
| 23 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 24 | They left the hospital and went to wait for the bus . |
| 25 | He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon . |
| 26 | And gone to work for the opposition . |
| 27 | But each could and did act for the other when necessary ; and English diplomats abroad frequently corresponded with both . |
| 28 | Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 29 | Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus . |
| 30 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |