Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few collectors dedicated enough to go for the company context is Peter Card , whose collection of 400 old bicycle lamps is without equal . |
| 2 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 3 | He looked at her face and tried harder to speak for her . |
| 4 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 5 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 6 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 7 | He was a key figure in the Quakers ' side for six seasons and played an equally important role with Bristol City until he moved abroad to play for Turkish side Beskitas . |
| 8 | I came here to look for you , and I 'm lucky to have found you . |
| 9 | He wondered how he could have displeased the man as he 'd yet to perform for him . |
| 10 | In the same year , it became harder to re-qualify for unemployment benefit once entitlement had been exhausted . |
| 11 | There is no question but that VSEL strived genuinely to compete for the order , and put in an effective bid . |
| 12 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 13 | Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year . |
| 14 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 15 | Villeneuve and Scheckter managed to score just eight points between them during the 1980 season and the reigning world champion failed even to qualify for one race . |
| 16 | The lights were dim , and the room was dark ; her brother did not respond to her cries , so the girl went inside to look for him . |
| 17 | And then the telephone rang on the little table beside them , and as Miguel rolled away to reach for it Shelley hastily rolled in the opposite direction , and sat on the edge of the bed with her back to him , smoothing back her hair and getting her breath back . |
| 18 | I went outside to look for her . |
| 19 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 20 | Last night Ryan said he felt partly to blame for her death after deciding to cool things . |
| 21 | Requiring 190 to complete their clean sweep , they lost Haynes first ball , bowled off stump by Meyrick Pringle who , along with Tertius Bosch , proceeded unsuccessfully to claim for nine lbw decisions against Simmons and Lara in the first eight overs , some more authentic than others . |
| 22 | He changed course five degrees and looked aft to check for squalls . |
| 23 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 24 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 25 | He explained that he went there to look for me . |
| 26 | ‘ That is not your business ! ’ she shouted and went upstairs to dress for the evening . |
| 27 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |
| 28 | One hour later I had recovered consciousness , was lying drugged and bloodless in my bed , and my father had gone out with the shotgun he owned then to look for Old Saul . |
| 29 | Neither services nor any other sector increased sufficiently to compensate for the loss of jobs in manufacturing . |
| 30 | Myself and half the management team piled into a speedboat and had literally to flee for our lives . ’ |