Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better .
2 The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse .
3 If you use STOP to exit a program for debugging , CLOSE all the data files before RUNning the program again .
4 Meanwhile , the Swedes claim to have discovered a cure for the sore eyes caused by staring at a screen all day which does n't involve putting any kind of filter or screen over the monitor .
5 Yet if we are going to approach language as isolated artificially constructed sentences , even if only occasionally and for limited purposes , we do need to make a case for this , and not just do it because that is the tradition : in the mother tongue classroom , for the foreign language learner , or in linguistics .
6 You do seem to have a propensity for rubbing people up the wrong way . ’
7 Yes , I 've got to post a card for Ruth .
8 That 's what you 've got to prove a will for , the three hundred thousand pounds has gone to your surviving spouse as a jointly owned property .
9 Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ ,
10 Well you ca n't leave a G P to spend the money like he likes , you 've got to have a committee for it .
11 Yeah , you 've got to have a reason for that .
12 For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen .
13 For example , on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's erm water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that lot up , it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through , and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us , ‘ Well , as councillors , well , do this for us , ’ and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air .
14 If I 've got to write a comment for a start
15 They 've had to open a service for them , they 're all getting their stamps
16 ‘ I 've wanted to do a marathon for a long time , but it would be silly to run one without putting it to use .
17 ‘ We 've managed to find a taxi for you , Heaven knows how .
18 In the chapters of this part of the book I have sought to provide a rationale for such an approach .
19 Members of the Redworth Women 's Institute have agreed to send a cheque for £15 to the County Durham Kostroma appeal .
20 NADV You have attempted to activate a DC for which you are not the associated user .
21 You have tried to submit a package for approval to a user who does not have QUALITY ASSURER privilege .
22 You have tried to submit a package for approval which has been submitted already .
23 You have tried to submit a package for approval which is not a package module .
24 You have tried to register a product for an unknown version of a product package .
25 Many researchers have tried to obtain a medium for growing antibodies that is free from calf serum .
26 Exploitation for Marx is the process by which a group of people are deprived of the full value of their labour so that what they have lost becomes a surplus for another group who obtain this element .
27 That has been the focus of this course and we hope we have managed to provide a framework for practice within which this can be achieved .
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