Example sentences of "[verb] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | There she would stay for up an hour in shirt-sleeves in the pitch-dark , sometimes in the snow , while the bewildered family shivered inside . |
2 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
3 | There seemed no hope now , nothing to go for except a curiously marked pocket which fitted two finger tips . |
4 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
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6 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
7 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
8 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
9 | We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g . |
10 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
11 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
12 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
13 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
14 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
15 | It recommended the adoption of the procedure asked for in the Institute 's Memorial , which he had helped to organize , and the substitution of moderate passages , in place of his forthright statements , only tended to give the Report the appearance of a more impartial document . |
16 | This was £80,000 in excess of the loan asked for in the application in its unaltered form . |
17 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
18 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
19 | This has , of course , been recognized for over a century . |
20 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
21 | And thirdly , we ask you to affirm the call of Peter for praying for in the ministry . |
22 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
23 | And that test has to be applied to es each eyslate because this toxin is not part of the genome of Cherani bacteria diphtheria , it 's actually a farged mediated toxin , it 's actually encoded for by a bacteria farged . |
24 | In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . |
25 | Mean arterial pressure was the most important variable to adjust for between the two groups . |
26 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
27 | Losses which can be claimed for under the Act are death , personal injuries and any loss of or damage to property ( s. 5(1) ) . |
28 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
29 | Here are the charts , as voted for by the readers of the disk-magazine Remark : |
30 | ADEMA captured 76 of the 116 seats voted for by the internal electorate ; 13 seats were reserved for Malians abroad . |