Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the sort of feature anyone half handy can make for their own water garden . |
| 2 | It does not make for your typical comic fare . |
| 3 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 4 | He taught her history : the story of Pelopidas and Epaminondas ; he taught her geography , taking a shovel and pail of water into the garden , where he would build for her instructive peninsulas , islands , gulfs and promontories . |
| 5 | Plasmids do not construct for themselves special protein coats to enable them to survive outside their host cells , but can be transmitted from one bacterial cell to another if those cells come into contact . |
| 6 | An interesting alternative is a superconducting electron accelerator , which can often compensate for its limited peak current by combination of exceptional beam quality , high stability and very long duty cycle . |
| 7 | A federal district court in Washington D.C. ruled on May 14 that the large accounting practice of Price Waterhouse should compensate for its earlier discrimination against Ann Hopkins , a former employee , by awarding her a partnership in the firm . |
| 8 | Serfdom survived in Russia , as in Rumania , chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population , where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services , or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market . |
| 9 | School and university still had n't changed me as much as they had ; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect . |
| 10 | He could compensate for his low official pay by means of the strings he could pull in conjunction with the other few rich peasants in the commune . |
| 11 | Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss . |
| 12 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 13 | She maintained links with the Quakers but made a point of religious independence : ‘ As I am not a member of any community , no society can answer for my irregular conduct . ’ |
| 14 | When this study was mounted participants were advised in writing that all findings would be reported to their medical practitioner , whom they should consult for their individual results . |
| 15 | Of course , they did n't fall for my cursed excuse , so I then tried going into sharp reverse to avoid the dreaded twice-weekly occurrence . |
| 16 | ‘ How much of your clobber will you need for your first two days ? ’ |
| 17 | Is this the full complement of men you 'll need for our next operation ? ’ |
| 18 | Now she could fabricate for herself rich and happy memories . |
| 19 | IAN RUSH makes a welcome return to action for crisis club Liverpool here tonight insisting : ‘ We must win for our own good . ’ |
| 20 | Remove restrictions on insurers and let people buy for themselves inexpensive insurance . |
| 21 | A report of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education in 1931 ( The Primary School ) contained words which were repeated by the Plowden Report in 1967 , " What a wise and good parent would desire for his own children , that a nation must desire for all children . " |
| 22 | But if she is cleansed of her discharge , she shall count for herself seven days , and after that she shall be clean . |
| 23 | No matter how much I hate — them — I will never root for my beloved Leeds to lose , even if it was to indirectly win the scum a treble . |
| 24 | Notwithstanding their competition and confrontation , both capitalist and socialist countries were coming to appreciate that they lived in an ‘ interdependent , in many ways integral world ’ in which they must cooperate for their common benefit . |
| 25 | To order and qualify for your fabulous free pair of Terence Renati Scissors , send a cheque for £115 ( inc p&p ) to Terence Renati Limited , . |
| 26 | She could hardly believe it , and she could not wait for her next consultation to see what was going to happen next . |
| 27 | He described one woman who kept saying , ‘ I ca n't wait for my second one to leave home , ’ but was actually denying the sadness she felt . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’ |
| 29 | But , to borrow ideas from Professor Charles Handy , partnership should still strive for its own immortality . |
| 30 | It did n't really matter much — it was an opportunity to seize on , to keep and cultivate for its potential usefulness : what a useful child … thank you , darling … |