Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an initiative would complement the United Nations arms register called for by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , and such an international responsibility is one that I believe Japan would willingly accept , which is why I commend it to my right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 2 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 3 | ‘ But if we are not able to obtain all the slots we 've applied for at Heathrow we may have to consider cutting back , ’ he said . |
| 4 | well this is the most , this is the most rain we 've had for in such a period , no , in , in about a week something like that |
| 5 | Bollards as we 've asked for across the frontage as well , and the back . |
| 6 | Well erm take it from me that I 've worked for for major American corporates and one major British corporate and er there is still something that you may miss all right . |
| 7 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 8 | The alternative to Regan 's typically liberationist view of animals , which I have argued for in this book and summed up in the concluding section of Chapter 6 , is that animals are primitive creatures . |
| 9 | But I welcome any participation in the debate I have called for on these issues , provided that it addresses the issues in a realistic way . |
| 10 | The terror of leaving the tot you have cared for round the clock in the hands of a virtual stranger can be more daunting than the birth itself . |
| 11 | That also means we will be subsidizing bad employers through our taxes and the fiddling factory owners will undermine the decent conditions we have fought for over the years . |
| 12 | ‘ Two of our employees have worked for over years at this location , Briege Mullan and Arlene Beckett . |