Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 2 | She carried a textbook on neurology in case she had to wait long for David . |
| 3 | But he knows , too , how to wait patiently for things to change . |
| 4 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 5 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 6 | I see wide attackers being allowed to come inside for shots , centre-backs who do not appear to have a clue about positional play and plenty of evidence to suggest that we are no longer producing defenders with the ability and confidence to cope on their own . ’ |
| 7 | The fact that he had once been the President of the Midlands Motor Traders ' Association , and was a director of Harry Greenway plc , was not considered to compensate sufficiently for Sir Ralph Howell . |
| 8 | I had always hoped that the Buddhist Sangha , meaning the Community of Buddhist monks , might take a hand in the raising of morale , the deepening of the Buddhist emphasis on the Noble Eightfold Path , and in getting all sections of the nation to work together for peace and reconstruction . |
| 9 | They were forbidden to preach or even to meet together for prayer . |
| 10 | In any case a number of these old pupils found that neither the church nor the State made any provision for them , and agreed among themselves to meet together for prayer and worship . |
| 11 | I wan na go , I 'm going to school tomorrow but I 'm going to come home for lunch . |
| 12 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why should you assume that I 'm a virgin ? ’ she finally managed to say , twisting away to grapple inwardly for composure . |
| 14 | Worse was to come though for Horsham as following a fifty fifty challenge on the edge of the Abingdon area , striker Paul Walker injured himself and had to be stretchered off . |
| 15 | As far as recruitment is concerned the preliminary quests as described earlier in this chapter appeared to work well for Ipswich but not for Newham . |
| 16 | The FAA voluntary reporting system was retained and continues to work well for routine incident reports , while the NASA administered anonymous system made great strides but suffered from the inability of its operatives to refer back to those reporting the incident to obtain amplification of the circumstances or to ask supplementary questions . |
| 17 | I used to come here for weekends and I used to come home at weekend and holiday time . |
| 18 | Well he used to come here for holidays . |
| 19 | Southwell Southwell faces Mansfield which rather gets us in the stick you see because we have to come here for Benefit Office interviews and things like that but you got to Mansfield |
| 20 | I do hope you do n't think this is presumptuous , and I expect you are very busy generally , but perhaps you and your husband would like to come here for supper one evening , or we could go out somewhere , or if it 's easier , I could drop in to you one evening for a short time for a chat . |
| 21 | In the meantime , a rather urgent matter has arisen which prompts me to write again for help . |
| 22 | As we know , this agreeable stasis did not continue ; the synthesis started to come apart for reasons which I have tried to explain . |
| 23 | We are delighted that is willing to stand again for election as Hon. Treasurer , but she feels it would be in the Society 's interest to have an Assistant Treasurer who would become familiar with our accounting methods and be able to take over should be away for a short period . |
| 24 | The main thing is to encourage people to come forward for services and feel confident about using them ’ . |
| 25 | Thirdly , the document will provide employees with the opportunity to come forward for help in the knowledge that they will be positively supported with the advice and necessary assistance , in order to overcome their problem and maintain their job security . |
| 26 | Attainment of the competence award is not limited by any specific time period or course length , so candidates will be able to come forward for assessment whenever they have accumulated the required evidence of competence against national standards . |
| 27 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 28 | Two weeks ago , for example , Halim Hattat , professor of uroandrology at Istanbul University , issued a well publicised invitation for Turks with sexual problems to come forward for treatment . |
| 29 | This is because the skilled individual is normally working well within his capacities , he does not have to search desperately for information because he knows exactly what to look for , his movements are not hurried because they are integrated into smooth chains and he does not react suddenly because he anticipates what is going to happen . |
| 30 | Unable to go away for weekends or holidays , she never goes out at night to dinner parties , discos or evening classes . |