Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to keep them occupied for the journey . |
| 2 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 3 | It should also lead you to ask another vital check question : Exactly how much time have I got for the presentation ? |
| 4 | Someone sent for the narrator 's father : ‘ My father said : ‘ I 'll come later on tonight : I 'll catch him for you . ’ |
| 5 | In 1985 Peruvian fishermen caught around 10,000 dolphins and porpoises , most of them destined for the fish markets of Peru 's capital Lima , making Peru second only to Japan in the consumption of dolphin flesh . |
| 6 | She looked around but could see nothing prepared for the arrival of a baby Maggie seemed to have had no nesting instincts at all . |
| 7 | But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day . |
| 8 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 9 | Have you fallen for the coy-virgin act , my darling ? |
| 10 | Had she arranged for the sets to be changed three times during a dinner party , she would have seen to it that everybody noticed . |
| 11 | Why had n't she arranged for the house to be sold so that Fabien de Rochefort could at least be repaid to some extent ? |
| 12 | What arrangement have you made for the children if they are ill or on holiday ? |
| 13 | Had she opted for the wrong values ? |
| 14 | Er , how are you fixed for the beginning of next month ? or the week after that ? |
| 15 | Have you gone for the longer length ? |
| 16 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 17 | Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ? |
| 18 | It is itself required for the fulfilment of the task we usually associate with political authority . |
| 19 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 20 | In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows . |
| 21 | As she sat facing him , rigidly upright , he saw that her chair was one designed for the disabled with a button in the armrest to raise the seat when she wanted help in rising . |
| 22 | The present palace follows the ground plan of an earlier one built for the Margrave of Moravia , Jan Jindřich , brother of Charles IV . |
| 23 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 24 | A report with a set of thematic maps , such as the one prepared for the Stirling area , is valuable to planners , enabling them to take proper account of the geological background . |
| 25 | It 's the one prepared for the submission . |
| 26 | Let the relevant IS curve be the one labelled IS and the relevant LM curve be initially the one drawn for the general level of prices , P , and labelled LM . |
| 27 | Cleared , were dispersed , and what have you got next , anyway after that , that that 's obviously a very problematic thing , because it 's using poetic images which are very difficult to move into modern standard English , but what have we got for the rain of heaven please ? |
| 28 | This will have to be a London job similar to the one produced for the Company 's aims and objectives . |
| 29 | Had we waited for the position to change , so that public investment or private investment with public guarantee could go ahead , we would still be waiting . |
| 30 | Northampton 's County Ground could be the scene of one upset for the visit of several old boys — including the manager , Trevor Gould — in the ranks of ambitious Aylesbury , the Vauxhall Premier leaders . |