Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
| 2 | Hawkwind opt for the lone nutter theory … |
| 3 | We understand that the two councils hope to apply for the necessary Order on the 28th of May . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Courtship is not all smooth going for the young male . |
| 10 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 11 | Submersible pumps should always be completely submerged ( remember to allow for the inevitable drop of water level through evaporation in warm weather ) . |
| 12 | These costs are paid straight into the Legal Aid Fund and go to defray the actual costs of the action in the accounts rendered to the Fund by solicitors and counsel acting for the assisted party . |
| 13 | The final selection of which approach to take for the practical application of apply linguistic information is dependent on a number of factors . |
| 14 | Now that we are ready to move to Sao Paulo please continue to pray for the Taquaral church and for the new church Jardim Miriam which we were privileged to see the starting and the continued growth of . |
| 15 | Try looking for the old Cinque Port of Rye along the coast and you 'll be disappointed . |
| 16 | Yet I keep changing , keep searching for the next challenge . |
| 17 | This is an important point to make , since many theoretical positions both before and after the work of Grice have assumed that omniscience in analysis is a possible option , and analyses are produced that claim to speak for the general reader while also using biographical information on the author from an asserted privileged position ( much of the methodology and work of F.R. Leavis ( e.g. 1936 , 1967 ) and his followers is characterised by this approach ) . |
| 18 | I do n't want to bring out a girl with six CSEs or 16+s who ca n't look after her baby , so you try to cater for the individual need . |
| 19 | SMITH 'S GALLERIES Start saving for the Contemporary Art Society Market , the Cash and Carry Art — the Sainsbury's-sponsored event — which returns at the end of the month to Covent Garden . |
| 20 | county and see whether the family wish currently if it would not benefit from er er being carried er in certain areas and I do apologise for the Chief Fire Officer if throw away to Martin er in any way being thought of as no regrets I am sure . |
| 21 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 22 | help to plan for the future development of the subject area . |
| 23 | And no obvious reason exists why meat , so long a symbol of human hegemony , should not , in time , come to stand for the unacceptable face of consumerism . |
| 24 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 25 | Often parents bring their children with them when they come to visit for the first time . |
| 26 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 27 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 28 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 29 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 30 | If that 's all you 've got for the whole battalion , that 's a success as far as the tour is concerned , ’ he said . |