Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard took hostages from them and then sent them and other members of their league to England to sue for mercy at his father 's feet . |
| 2 | It is quite anomalous therefore that SI 1991 489 regulation 3(c) makes specific provision for any person to sue for breach of Core Rule 28 ( or a comparable SRO insider dealing rule ) . |
| 3 | It follows therefore , that a fireman fighting a fire at a factory which is not his place of employment , will not be able to sue for breach of such a statutory duty ( Hartley v Mayoh & Co [ 1954 ] 1 QB 383 ) . |
| 4 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
| 5 | His remedy was to sue for breach of contract . |
| 6 | A Kenyan chartered accountant threatened to sue for loss of business . |
| 7 | Pollock C.B. regarded the power to sue for defamation with reference to certain imputations of criminal conduct to be excluded because of the inability of a corporation to commit crimes such as murder , or incest , or adultery , or corruption . |
| 8 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 9 | He reserved his deadliness for dealing with opponents in his own party , and had little to spare for use against the MacDonald governments . |
| 10 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 11 | We 'll have to wait for permission from the expatriate lady in Sweden . ’ |
| 12 | If you can be as … affected as you seem to have been by answering journalists ' questions , perhaps I 'd be wiser to wait for publication of results , like everyone else . |
| 13 | The winches could then be run instantly without having to wait for steam to be available . |
| 14 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 15 | Banks and bondholders are being asked to wait for repayment of nearly £1 billion of its £1.2 billion debt . |
| 16 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 17 | Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men . |
| 18 | We should discuss timing the leaflet : on the one hand , it would be good to wait for consultation on course content , but there is also some urgency . |
| 19 | Has to wait for food to be cooked and prepare to wait for it . |
| 20 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 21 | Since job D has to wait for completion of B , and only B , before it can start , the early start for D is 7 . |
| 22 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 23 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 24 | you 've got to go for size of the |
| 25 | Still considering whether to go for microfilm with computer-aided retrieval , or a DIP ( document image processing ) system . |
| 26 | ‘ I want you to go for dinner with me . ’ |
| 27 | Er you can give him a shout at some point Steve and er arrange to go for dinner with him . |
| 28 | The Council of Licensed Conveyancers and the Institute are likely to go for approval at an early date ; it is unlikely , however , that any approvals will be given before the second half of 1993 . |
| 29 | And a final word about the National Park : it has its ‘ Maisons du Parc ’ in some of the small towns on the fringes of the Park , which are excellent places to go for information about walks , wildlife and flowers . |
| 30 | THE ECHO 'S reply to Tom Roberts ' recent letter forgets to mention that lots of the criminals ' victims are deprived of their freedom — pensioners too frightened to go for fear of being mugged , young girls afraid to walk the streets at night in fear of being raped . |