Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best . |
| 2 | Edward Forbes and Darwin were inspired by Lyell to look for geological changes that would explain the present distribution of species in Europe . |
| 3 | On the second day after Eric 's escape , early in the morning a troop of Germans , accompanied by Fascists , arrived in Fontanellato to look for escaped prisoners . |
| 4 | On Feb. 9 the fundamentalist Hindu movement Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) agreed to requests from V. P. Singh to delay for four months the next stage of construction of the so-called " Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi " shrine at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 5 | In a letter published in the Bogotá daily El Tiempo on Nov. 22 , some 50 prominent academics , artists and journalists , including the famous writer Gabriel García Márquez , called on the CNGSB to search for political solutions to the country 's problems . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I believe my attitude and fitness have both improved since I signed for Wednesday , and I 've got the boss and coach Ritchie Barker to thank for that . |
| 7 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 8 | The most important thing right now is for England to qualify for next years World Cup Finals . |
| 9 | Bicentennial fever , and aggressive marketing by Sotheby 's Australia , which opened in 1983 , spurred businessmen Robert Holmes à Court , Laurie Connell and Alan Bond to compete for authentic images of their homeland . |
| 10 | Grain and orchards do flourish in , for example , the Marathon plain , the market garden of modern Athens , but the inability of Attica as a whole to feed a large population gave the olive an additional role as an export , to be sent to south Russia to pay for Ukrainian corn . |
| 11 | The Argentinian captain returned to Buenos Aires yesterday for the match against Denmark tomorrow after club president , Luis Cuervas , had ordered Maradona to prepare for next weekend 's home fixture in Spain . |
| 12 | GL to arrange for this amount to be transferred to Computing . |
| 13 | Word was also sent to the Superintendent of Newbury to arrange for Shorter 's body to be moved . |
| 14 | The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers . |
| 15 | In fact , I always have remembered — and I have Monty Lee to thank for that . |
| 16 | A delegation led by Sawyer representing the interim government-in-exile meanwhile toured Nigeria , Ghana , Sierra Leone and Guinea to lobby for official recognition . |
| 17 | I mean , there 's enough coal in the United Kingdom to last for another two hundred years ! |
| 18 | I have already written to BBC to plead for more time for Eldorado . |
| 19 | At that time he travelled on a little inter-island plane to the northerly island of Westray to teach for two days a week ; for a while he taught for two days on the island of Sanday as well . |
| 20 | Talking of which , Neighbours ' twins Gillian and Gayle Blakeney ( pictured above , although which is which is anyone 's guess ) in Liverpool to prepare for this year 's Empire panto , Dick Whittington , say they hope to have a single cut by Christmas . |
| 21 | Efforts were made in late August to arrange for high-level talks in September between the ANC and Inkatha , two weeks of severe township violence in Transvaal having claimed over 500 lives . |
| 22 | Election ‘ 92 : Kinnock to aim for full employment |
| 23 | Described by the authorities as an " informal organization " , the MDU had been formed in December 1989 [ see p. 37124 ] and had subsequently organized a series of peaceful demonstrations in Ulan Bator to press for political and economic reforms , including the introduction of a multi-part system [ see p. 37186 ] . |
| 24 | We have Alan Austin to thank for this character-building little outing — an experience you wo n't forget in a hurry ! |
| 25 | Majorie gained B.Litt in 1948 and D.Phil in 1976 , and expresses gratitude to Somerville for enabling her to return to Oxford to work for this . |
| 26 | So John Davies and Simon Green of the University of Leicester have collaborated with the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Britain to look for fast-moving objects in IRAS signals as they arrive from the laboratory 's receiving station in Oxfordshire . |
| 27 | But doctors said yesterday the knee was still inflamed and ordered Platt to rest for several days . |
| 28 | By 1990 , industry observers expect Japan to account for 30 per cent of world sales of computer-related goods , compared with 11.2 per cent in December 1980 . |
| 29 | Exports to them had increased by 200 per cent and they were taking more than half of British exports.30 Colonial trade enabled Britain to pay for continued imports of linens , wines and timber from Europe with re-exported colonial products , which had been paid for by the export of domestic manufactures . |
| 30 | They still did n't want both openers out for ducks in the first two overs , nor Jones to follow for 5 . |