Example sentences of "for [art] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described .
2 Ask a group of industry watchers for the trends to look out for in 1993 , and one answer they 're all sure to give you is portable computing .
3 I wo n't wait for the card , for the bill to come in for the card .
4 ROD WALLACE last night pleaded for the chance to make up for his England heartache , writes John Edwards .
5 It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment .
6 The meaning is not explained but is left for the listeners to work out for themselves .
7 In April the garden was a jungle of bluebells , bursting from under the trees in blue tides above your ankles , but by midsummer my grandmother had it tame again , fifty yards of earth between wooden fences bearing docile rows of hollyhock and sweet peas ; an ex-army rug was spread on the shaven lawn for the children to sit on for tea outdoors .
8 President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections .
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