Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 2 | So the institutions are being dragooned into subscribing for a package of shares in all 10 companies . |
| 3 | The Hungarian government responded by calling for an emergency meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , and announcing its intention to submit a complaint to the International Court of Justice . |
| 4 | On Oct. 9 , demonstrators responded by calling for the resignation of Crimea 's authorities and cancellation of the new resolution . |
| 5 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 6 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 7 | Three years later , another new ‘ Bluebird ’ was prevented from going for the record by floods at Lake Eyre , Australia , a delay which brought much criticism of Campbell from his backers , led by Sir Alfred Owen . |
| 8 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 9 | We might argue , albeit anachronistically , that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge . |
| 10 | There are two approaches which can be adopted to charging for the service : |
| 11 | Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training . |
| 12 | The objective is to make sure that the needs of individual students can be met by arranging for the research to be directed by experienced members of staff actively interested in the chosen topic who will be the supervisors . |
| 13 | She has also considered re-training and thought about enrolling for a college course . |
| 14 | And your telephone then and then you go to this is got ta to go for the page |
| 15 | We 've got ta pay for the coach this time have n't we , or something ? |
| 16 | We got ta pay for the coach this time though have n't we ? |
| 17 | Who has n't got ta pay for the machine ? |
| 18 | Oh you see if they want her back to testing they 've got ta pay for the resource to er for us to , to , to recruit somebody else in the meantime . |
| 19 | And I start waiting , I 've got ta wait for a report for that Wednesday . |
| 20 | Yeah , we have , I 've got ta wait for the man to come ! |
| 21 | Furthermore , despite a recent recovery , the fact that the value of our investments fell very sharply in the calendar year illustrates that we are certainly not insulated from our country 's economic problems ; this must never be overlooked in planning for the future . ’ |
| 22 | I would like to challenge the widespread assumption advanced in Shopping for the planet ( NI 203 ) that dealing with diapers is an impossibly difficult task . |
| 23 | The most important provision in this manual is that the system of cash accounting , rather than accruals accounting , is used in accounting for the money voted to government departments by Parliament . |
| 24 | The view is that Salmond was duped , that he was tricked into voting for the Government on Maastricht and got next to nothing in return . |
| 25 | In 1969 he was fined £25 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and was disqualified for driving for a year for failing to give police a blood or urine sample . |
| 26 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 27 | He was fined a total of £300 and disqualified from driving for a year . |
| 28 | The potential saving compared to paying for a childminder can be considerable ; more so for a nanny . |
| 29 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 30 | ‘ Submitting ’ to the experience is a necessary step which a participant may be deterred from taking for a number of reasons , particularly if he has too great a vested interest in the subject-matter or in his own reputation . |