Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 2 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 3 | Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail . |
| 4 | He has travelled home to prepare for a World Championship heat in Austria . |
| 5 | They 've clubbed together to pay for the instalation of two video cameras , which scan the only road into the neighbouring villages of Purton and Halmore . |
| 6 | Then in 1991 VAT was raised again to pay for the reduction in community charge . |
| 7 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 8 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 9 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 10 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 11 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , here you are now , which is the main thing , ’ said Rupert a little awkwardly , yet determined not to apologise for the remoteness of his house when he remembered the hours he had spent waiting in the rush hour for a Green Line bus to their house at Warlingham or Woldingham or some such rustic name . |
| 13 | A few million dollars were kept abroad to provide for the family 's regular needs from videos and colour television sets through to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's preferred Gillette razors . |
| 14 | Widnes prop Harvey Howard has vowed never to play for the club again after being refused permission to spend the summer with Australian side Eastern Suburbs by his Norton Park bosses . |
| 15 | Nicholson had never carried out his threat to sue , though Hugo had endured some worrying weeks waiting to see if papers would be served on him , and the experience had made him determined never to work for the likes of Nicholson again . |
| 16 | I also suggested that Britons should be urged not to ask for a chance to look at the remains until the situation improves . |
| 17 | Drivers have been urged not to head for the area where there will be road closures and diversions from 8pm . |
| 18 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 19 | Some of the traps described how to arrange for the prey to fall through seemingly firm ground into a pit full of spikes beneath . |