Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 2 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 3 | I had done well in my O-levels , but I had already won the Under-16 British squash championships , and I decided to go for broke and turn professional and see how I got on . |
| 4 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 5 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 6 | But , you might find the trip you want is full , and you have to go for another . |
| 7 | ‘ However , it can also make you disorientated and you start to apply for less and less appropriate jobs as you get desperate . |
| 8 | And who wants to fall for that ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said again , and the floodgates really opened , and she began to cry for all the bewilderment of feelings he had caused in her . |
| 10 | ‘ The doctors say she 's responding very well to the new treatment , and she expects to live for another hundred years . ’ |
| 11 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 12 | Priorities only seem useful when we can not get exactly what we want and we have to settle for second-best . |
| 13 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 14 | They make remarks about an unmanly attitude , and they pretend to look for yellow streaks . |
| 15 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 16 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 17 | The true explanation is utterly different , and it had to wait for one of the most revolutionary thinkers of all time , Charles Darwin . |
| 18 | This CCL was not based on the capabilities of any one system , and it attempted to provide for all the facilities through any existing bibliographic information system . |