Example sentences of "[vb base] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hate for a man . |
| 2 | Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives . |
| 3 | But Mr Pialat 's feeling for la vie quotidienne and languid afternoons on river banks , contrasted with the bustle and frenzy of the Paris scenes , amply compensate for a lack of historical detail . |
| 4 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 5 | favour for a friend ? |
| 6 | It was only halted after a massive nationwide media campaign orchestrated by conservationists , but nearly every year Arizona congressional representatives push for a dam to be built at mile 238 , which would inundate most of the lower Grand Canyon . |
| 7 | University or polytechnic students should apply to their Careers Service for a list of possible employers while school leavers may be advised by the school or college careers adviser or the local authority careers adviser . |
| 8 | How dare he speculate on the subject , then write his conclusions on a document I must carry round with me and display for a month ? |
| 9 | SPONSOR for a Curry Ball ? |
| 10 | They emerge and merge , co-operate and co-ordinate for a while , but they have a relatively short active lifetime . |
| 11 | Eyes front for a feast of steam ! |
| 12 | Bit too complicated I fear for a terrace chant … still — I like it ! ! |
| 13 | ‘ You mean for a holiday ? ’ |
| 14 | I mean for a while I think it was maybe my glasses , but these are just new |
| 15 | ‘ You mean for a consultation about Edwin 's health ? ’ |
| 16 | Cannon , after a miss , hit and lay for a single at the fourth and then they stole two at the fifth where Muirhead just failed by a fraction with a raised take out . |
| 17 | I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it . |
| 18 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 19 | Karelius awoke that morning at half-past six , and lay for a while thinking about Fräulein Müller . |
| 20 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 21 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 22 | And England 's private schools , whose pupils account for a quarter of sixth-formers and of A-level passes , know that parents will pay for the prospect of a smooth path to university . |
| 23 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 24 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 25 | Since local authorities account for a quarter of all public expenditure , central government must control their spending . |
| 26 | FoE claims that halons now account for a quarter of the ozone depleting chemicals in use in the UK . |
| 27 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 28 | That er it should be any account for a pension fund should carry the name of pension fund and any transactions involved with pension fund money wh it should be a duty of the Financial Institution to make sure that any account they were paying money into was a pension fund account . |
| 29 | Er we would say that as , that as far as pension funds are concerned , stock lending in that way should be prohibited and the puerilely ca carrying on that er is that er it should be any account for a pension fund should carry the names of pension funds and any transactions involved with pension fund money whether it should be a duty of financial institutions to make sure that any account they were paying money into was a pension fund account . |
| 30 | Or sit for a while with your back against the trunk of a mature tree ( preferably an oak ) ; breathe deeply and allow yourself to merge , as it were , with the energies of the tree . |