Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 2 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
| 3 | If they want to go for a longer period , a key worker would go out with them . ’ |
| 4 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 5 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 6 | But if you want to play for a good cause and strap on your box in the company of famous faces , challenge The Lord 's Taverners to a match . |
| 7 | Hawkwind opt for the lone nutter theory … |
| 8 | If the members of a section want to vote for a full-time branch secretary , there was a member of that section , who 's been a full time branch secretary for longer than eighteen months , what right has anyone got to say they ca n't ? |
| 9 | I do n't want a complacent little doll that I can manipulate , ’ he said strangely , ‘ I want to fight for every damned caress — and I think I 'm going insane . |
| 10 | In this sense the privileges and goods that pupils can ‘ purchase ’ with the points they earn provide for an effective degree of control . |
| 11 | We understand that the two councils hope to apply for the necessary Order on the 28th of May . |
| 12 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 13 | To see this , imagine repeating for a second country the process just described for the first . |
| 14 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 15 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 16 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 17 | The active Paul Mitchell Systems team campaigning for a better world |
| 18 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 19 | You sound poised for a pleasant Christmas , which is nice . |
| 20 | When adult , this type may be prone to violent rages and self-righteous anger , which seem to erupt for no apparent reason , but which stem from a desperate need for self-assertion . |
| 21 | Brylcreem cater for the complexion-conscious male with Sensus , five new skincare products — skin-sensitive Shaving Foam and Gel , soothing After Shave Gel and Mousse , plus a Moisturiser . |
| 22 | The governments that result , either a minority party governing with the consent of other parties , or a coalition of two or more parties , tend to last for a shorter period than one-party governments but the difference disappears if reshuffles of ministerial posts within single-party governments are taken into account ( Blondel , 1990 , p. 271 ) . |
| 23 | Facing the loathsome rat-men I tend to opt for a defensive strategy and try and inflict as many casualties as possible at long range . |
| 24 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 25 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 26 | Courtship is not all smooth going for the young male . |
| 27 | Leeds 0 Ipswich 0 ; Ipswich get praised for a resolute defence . |
| 28 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 29 | Submersible pumps should always be completely submerged ( remember to allow for the inevitable drop of water level through evaporation in warm weather ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |