Example sentences of "[to-vb] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 2 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 3 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 4 | He has n't , got to wait for the things to come the , the bed and the car and er they have n't ordered a carpet yet |
| 5 | We went out to wait for the others . |
| 6 | So I sat down beside her to wait for the others . |
| 7 | The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals . |
| 8 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 9 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 10 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 11 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 12 | If you er , if the people of West Sussex a couple of weeks ago , when there was flooding around Chichester , they 're actually going to wait for the waters to evaporate . |
| 13 | But then , instead of making a hasty retreat , they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions . |
| 14 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 15 | When Terry was ready , and everyone had been in to have a look , exclaim , and , in the case of Terry 's mother , cry , she ushered them all downstairs to wait for the cars . |
| 16 | These salads come into production faster than traditional lettuces as there is no need to wait for the plants to mature . |
| 17 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 18 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 19 | Not only had we increased our self-awareness , but we felt content , happy with ourselves and we 'd also received the encouragement to go for the things we want — to seize the day . |
| 20 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 21 | Mortimer was also tempted to go for the sentries , but also recognized the folly of such a move . |
| 22 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 23 | And how did you know to go for the dolls ' bed ? ’ |
| 24 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |
| 25 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 26 | The terminal or turning point are the areas where you should begin to search for the hotspots . |
| 27 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 28 | The king therefore sent Nicholas de Bolevill with ten armed men to search for the malefactors , and to inquire who harboured them . |
| 29 | A US military team arrived in Phnom Penh on July 24 to search for the bodies of US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Cambodia after the Vietnam war . |
| 30 | Reporter asks : Why did you decide to search for the sisters ? |