Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The Mackinnons hosted them here twice , the second time being at the end of September after the pair had crossed the island to catch a boat for islands south of Skye . ) |
| 2 | I decided to watch the television in my room , or listen to the radio , and get to sleep early so I could be up just after dawn to catch a wasp for the Factory . |
| 3 | As the head of Cedars was making his entry list for September already , and would have to submit it by the end of the week , the educational psychologist was going to request a place for Balbinder before Statementing him . |
| 4 | After becoming involved with the Working Men 's College , established by Frederick Maurice [ q.v. ] in 1854 , Elizabeth Malleson was inspired to found a counterpart for women . |
| 5 | Cooke published influential articles in the School and the Teacher and helped to found a museum for London teachers . |
| 6 | Will we eventually be forced to found a Campaign for Real Cricket ? |
| 7 | It is no longer possible to found a reputation for scholarship on being good at spotting allusions . |
| 8 | EQ'ing helps , but I found that over-correction would affect the lead channel , which shares the same tone circuitry , so I had to accept a compromise for my crunch sound . |
| 9 | The paradigm example to remind us of the conventionality of the relationship between meanings and perceptions is the case of expressions for colour , and this holds good even if we are willing to accept a case for the universality of certain focal points of colour perception . ) |
| 10 | I 'm perfectly happy to accept a figure for York of thirty three hectares . |
| 11 | Despite the unspoken antipathy he felt , Modigliani was reluctant to accept a fee for the painting . |
| 12 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 13 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 14 | The 355mm ( 14in ) twin plate unit that came with the gearbox could n't be fitted into the space available , so Mr Tomlinson had to write a cheque for £800 to buy a special Case IH single plate unit . |
| 15 | I set out in May 1985 to write a feature for the Financial Times about this man apparently rich enough with his two brothers to pay £615m in cash for the House of Fraser . |
| 16 | Her musical career continues — she has just been asked to write a song for a new album by Belinda Carlisle . |
| 17 | Colvin had known Burne-Jones , and was persuaded to write a preface for a London gallery show . |
| 18 | In that work Tolkien had set himself to write a romance for an audience brought up on novels . |
| 19 | You are required to write a report for submission to the Board of Cheshire Restaurants Ltd , analysing the alternative proposals and submitting your recommendations as to the course to be pursued . |
| 20 | If I 've got to write a comment for a start |
| 21 | Fernando Trueba 's flamboyant Euro-thriller stars Jeff Goldblum as Dan Gillis , a latter-day American in Paris attempting to pick up the pieces of a failed marriage , approached with an offer to write a screenplay for charismatic first-time director Malcolm ( Dexter Fletcher ) . |
| 22 | At the end of January an invitation from Richard Brinsley Sheridan to write a tragedy for Drury Lane left Coleridge ‘ gratified and somewhat elated ’ , and vowing that whatever time he could spare from reviewing he would now devote to play-writing . |
| 23 | ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’ |
| 24 | Instructors should distribute Handout 21 and ask trainees to write a protocol for a possible intervention using what they have learned in the preceding parts — particularly the ten steps in Part 3 . |
| 25 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 26 | The first step requires us to postulate a form for player A's equilibrium strategy and then deduce the nature of player B t 'S knowledge about the private information z , given its knowledge of A's strategy . |
| 27 | One Sunday that August , he left his farm near the Oxford ring road to meet a friend for lunch . |
| 28 | On Jan. 3 , a Convention on Yugoslavia , in which 159 groups had participated , called on the Yugoslav Federal Assembly to establish a procedure for secession from Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | He probably studied at Oxford , though the evidence is indirect : his executors endowed 200 marks to establish a loan-chest for the masters and scholars and , no doubt because he was a benefactor , his death anniversary was to be observed by the university . |
| 30 | Goal : To establish a budget for monthly spending prior to the wedding . |