Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so were the figures I posted for corners etc totally false , or were we like ‘ Cobras with arthritis ’ again ? |
| 2 | By an Act of 1922 a pawnbroker could charge a ‘ valuation fee ’ of 1/2d for each 5s lent for pledges under £2 . |
| 3 | Even in his latest film , the hilarious Housesitter which opened in Britain last Friday , it is the bubbly Goldie Hawn , his co-star , who plays for laughs rather than Steve . |
| 4 | He plays for Rovers now . |
| 5 | There was more than one couple in his parish who had communicated for years only by note or through neighbours . |
| 6 | Students with any subjects outstanding have transferred to the new structure , with full credit being given for subjects already passed . |
| 7 | I never cared for results never cared for results at all . |
| 8 | This investment can only be justified for systems where transactions have a huge value to that business . |
| 9 | The technique is best suited to hydrothermal systems older than 100 million years and has been proven for deposits as old as 1800 million years . |
| 10 | I mean for years when I was young I was jet black and that was lovely . |
| 11 | We calculated 95% confidence intervals with exact error factors for Poisson mean for numbers less than 30 and with the asymptotic error factor approximation for larger numbers . |
| 12 | and suddenly I mean people lived for centuries there |
| 13 | S I well I asked for questions before , Mr , but erm what is your question ? |
| 14 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 15 | ‘ That is something we asked for years ago which has not been implemented , particularly because Dublin is not prepared to co-operate with London in what they would see as interning Irish citizens on Irish soil . |
| 16 | All other sources used by d'Indy show that it is intended for strings alone . |
| 17 | After 12 months you should have nice young plants nearly ready for moving on to permanent quarters or , if the cuttings are of the rugosa type and intended for rootstocks on to which you are going to bud other varieties , they can be planted out ready for working . |
| 18 | This accounted for Washington 's disparaging view of various ‘ zones of peace ’ advocated by Soviet leaders in the 1950s and 1960s , which were intended for regions where the Western states remained militarily preponderant . |
| 19 | The JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Contractor 's Design , 1981 edition , is intended for situations where the client having stated his requirements , seeks proposals from the contractor for the design and construction of the project . |
| 20 | For elderly people , there must also be concern that emphasis on reducing waiting times by contracting for services non-locally will impose serious hardship on those unable or unwilling to travel . |
| 21 | Stephen read for hours upstairs . |
| 22 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 23 | Many of their customers were being treated for diseases directly caused by their habit . |
| 24 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 25 | Er , it would n't matter to the leather trade as such or to any of the countries , er if there was no saddling and harness trade , and that goes for countries like erm , Britain and France and Germany and United States and so on . |
| 26 | This goes for women as much as for men ; street make-up is not suitable . |
| 27 | Changes in contribution conditions mean that higher paid people qualify for benefits faster than lower paid people and this especially affects women who make up the majority of low-paid workers . |
| 28 | Her screams would be heard for miles around . |
| 29 | To Chapman 's horror , Arsenal were a goal down fifteen minutes from the interval , to deafening cheers from the home supporters that could be heard for miles around . |
| 30 | In the following months , government efforts to open a dialogue with workers failed as their representatives pressed for changes too radical for the government to consider . |