Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 2 | The Laboratory is catering to demand for local chips from Taiwanese Sparcsystem builders such as Tatung Electronics Co , Datatech Inc , Twinhead Inc , Sampo Inc and Chicony Inc . |
| 3 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote . |
| 4 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 5 | With respect , it is submitted , that to the extent that the observation may be characterized as seeking to compensate for any lack of clarity in the formulation of the rule in Pepper v. Hart , by the threat of judicial orders for costs , this approach is wrong in principle . |
| 6 | Pausing to listen for any sounds of activity before making her dash across to the cover of the fosse , she found herself automatically reciting part of the Litany to the Blessed Virgin : " Mother most pure , Mother undefiled , Mother most admirable , Mother of good counsel , Mother of our creator , Mother of our Saviour , Virgin most prudent , Virgin most venerable … mystical rose , Tower of David , House of Gold , Ark of the Covenant … " |
| 7 | It is time that members opposite stopped this petty vindictiveness and sought to join with both ourselves and the Liberals in seeking to press for real progress in recognising the specific requirement of people with disabilities . |
| 8 | Sometimes a family will believe that tough love involves refusal to help the suffer to seek recovery , for example by refusing to pay for specific 12 step programme counselling or in-patient treatment . |
| 9 | As we show on page 10 , brewers are refusing to pay for urgent repairs to their tenanted pubs which they have earmarked for conversion to leases because new leaseholders will have to carry that burden when they take over . |
| 10 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 11 | It is widespread and growing to the extent that the government is currently seeking to legislate for variable contracts between trade union members and non-members . |
| 12 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 13 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 14 | ‘ There was no way I was going to go for that . |
| 15 | This year they 're going to go for four thousand . |
| 16 | Erm oh we 'll they 're going to go for twenty P plus cost of the stamped addressed return envelope |
| 17 | She said , ‘ What am I going to wear for this old party tomorrow ? |
| 18 | This mortaring is going to continue for some time . ’ |
| 19 | Pioneer must be assuming this trend is going to continue for some time ; its Wakefield plant does not go fully on line until 1994 . |
| 20 | The working class were not going to fall for this one , and neither were their wives . |
| 21 | Courts were generally regarded as fair , and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage . |
| 22 | I know I 'm going to suffer for this tomorrow — later today — but I do n't care . |
| 23 | She was n't going to stand for that ! |
| 24 | Disgrace ‘ It is an absolute disgrace that these thugs terrorised defenceless animals for no reason at all and even threatened our staff who tried to intervene and we are not going to stand for that , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ If you think we 're going to stand for this , ’ shrieked the shrews in their shrill little voices , ‘ you 've got another think coming ! ’ |
| 26 | The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country . |
| 27 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 28 | Once employees are certain they are not going to move with the company , they are going to look for alternative work . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to look for real clues round here — bloodstains and things . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Talking about the Newleys , ’ he mumbled between licks , ‘ are you going to look for another job ? ’ |