Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 2 | 911 is the number you would dial for emergency in America hence the name of the program . |
| 3 | Richard took hostages from them and then sent them and other members of their league to England to sue for mercy at his father 's feet . |
| 4 | It is quite anomalous therefore that SI 1991 489 regulation 3(c) makes specific provision for any person to sue for breach of Core Rule 28 ( or a comparable SRO insider dealing rule ) . |
| 5 | It follows therefore , that a fireman fighting a fire at a factory which is not his place of employment , will not be able to sue for breach of such a statutory duty ( Hartley v Mayoh & Co [ 1954 ] 1 QB 383 ) . |
| 6 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
| 7 | His remedy was to sue for breach of contract . |
| 8 | A Kenyan chartered accountant threatened to sue for loss of business . |
| 9 | Pollock C.B. regarded the power to sue for defamation with reference to certain imputations of criminal conduct to be excluded because of the inability of a corporation to commit crimes such as murder , or incest , or adultery , or corruption . |
| 10 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 11 | He reserved his deadliness for dealing with opponents in his own party , and had little to spare for use against the MacDonald governments . |
| 12 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 13 | We 'll have to wait for permission from the expatriate lady in Sweden . ’ |
| 14 | If you can be as … affected as you seem to have been by answering journalists ' questions , perhaps I 'd be wiser to wait for publication of results , like everyone else . |
| 15 | The winches could then be run instantly without having to wait for steam to be available . |
| 16 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 17 | Banks and bondholders are being asked to wait for repayment of nearly £1 billion of its £1.2 billion debt . |
| 18 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 19 | Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men . |
| 20 | We should discuss timing the leaflet : on the one hand , it would be good to wait for consultation on course content , but there is also some urgency . |
| 21 | Has to wait for food to be cooked and prepare to wait for it . |
| 22 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 23 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 24 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 25 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 26 | However , the Board has been criticized for over-concentration on economic development at the expense of social development ( Carter 1974 ) . |
| 27 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 28 | Sociolinguists who present their data using the simple graphs and frequency tables popularized by Labov in his early work have often been criticized for lack of statistical sophistication . |
| 29 | The study has been criticized for incompleteness of data , but it was a major step forward , and the results obtained were so positive that further research was stimulated . |
| 30 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |