Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 2 | She would need somewhere to stay for at least a night , and her closest friend in the town was herself an academic . |
| 3 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 4 | So the argument that Mr Major needs only to wait for the inevitable victory , after the inevitable economic recovery , should be taken with a fistful of salt . |
| 5 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 6 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 7 | In Darcy 's Utopia there will be elections , but people will be expected merely to vote for people they personally like . |
| 8 | * the user has perhaps to budget for the cost of the item , and will wish to maximise the value for money he or she can obtain from the expenditure ; * the user has to cope with the consequences of late delivery , faulty products , breakdowns and servicing requirements ( etc ) ; * the user will be concerned with product reliability and supplier reputation . |
| 9 | One of the few collectors dedicated enough to go for the company context is Peter Card , whose collection of 400 old bicycle lamps is without equal . |
| 10 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 11 | So what follows is an extreme simplification of many complex matters , given as an introduction to a system which the student has largely to discover for himself . |
| 12 | He looked at her face and tried harder to speak for her . |
| 13 | She will run in another 5K road race in Carlsbad , California on Sunday : ‘ It should be a cracking race , judging by the field , ’ said Boyle , before returning home to prepare for the outdoor season . |
| 14 | Seagull partly to blame for jockey 's death |
| 15 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |
| 16 | He keeps it up pretty decently , considering , but it 's all done on a shoe-string , it has practically to pay for itself . |
| 17 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 18 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 19 | Unlike us , the horse 's teeth continuously grow upwards to compensate for wear which is why they need regular checking and rasping . |
| 20 | There has been an advantage in looking first at an exercise because its very ‘ task ’ orientation often makes the structure explicit , whereas in group drama one has often to look for it . |
| 21 | He expects Megan to work part-time to pay for groceries and clothes for herself and their three children . |
| 22 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 23 | He was a key figure in the Quakers ' side for six seasons and played an equally important role with Bristol City until he moved abroad to play for Turkish side Beskitas . |
| 24 | It 's a shame really that no-one has come forward to apply for it , because it 's such a lovely , wonderful bungalow . |
| 25 | Because there was a shortage of pasture in many districts , cattle were allowed to wander freely to search for food , especially during the seasons when they were not wanted for agriculture . |
| 26 | And we have been involved , I have certainly been into schools a fair bit but but they 're erm they are a bit reticent they 're certainly slow to come forward to ask for your for you help and and |
| 27 | The irony of it is this : events will show that he has no need to pray for deliverance from Esau ; he needs instead to pray for deliverance from God . |
| 28 | ‘ Something 's got to give and it 's going to be Nottingham Forest , ’ said Palace striker Paul Williams , who has yet to score for the low-flying Eagles since trading places with Sheffield Wednesday-bound Mark Bright and a £1 million cash adjustment over two months ago . |
| 29 | Something which man has yet to design for himself ! |
| 30 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |