Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 2 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 3 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 4 | I long for a more matter-of-fact , common sense approach to environmental action . |
| 5 | And here I apologise for the rather poor sound quality , but he refused to shut his parrot and dogs in another room during the interview . |
| 6 | As I seem to remember telling you yesterday , I design for a totally different market from G.W. Fashions . ’ |
| 7 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 8 | Working as I do for a technically based industry , I hope I may be forgiven for believing that almost anything can be achieved through technology , if we are dear enough about what is needed . |
| 9 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 10 | No , erm basically er I think for the anyhow Trevor will be coming in , so we 'll , we just st try and stay a little more to see what happens at the end . |
| 11 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 12 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 13 | Naturally , I hoped for the best as regards the efficacy of my heart-felt prayer , but I had to be practical . |
| 14 | Following the Seveso incident , strict EEC legislation has virtually eliminated the possibility of similar accidents which account for a relatively small component of overall exposure . |
| 15 | Reference Recordings of San Francisco are to be congratulated on persuading the composer himself to conduct for a stunningly recorded disc that fills so many shocking gaps in the catalogue . |
| 16 | On a more positive note , the expedition did make port at the appointed hour on the appointed day , having spent several hours in a public house further up the estuary to avoid being early , which made for a very ‘ happy ’ reunion . |
| 17 | Lillie Moulton was invited to Fontainebleau in August 1866 on a day of ‘ intolerable heat in a crowded train which made for a highly unpleasant journey ’ . |
| 18 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |
| 19 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 20 | In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval . |
| 21 | The first was announced in a Practice Direction ( 1989 ) 1 WLR 281 , which provided for the much earlier delivery of skeleton arguments which would be studied by the judges before they sat to hear the appeal . |
| 22 | A HOSPICE which cares for the terminally ill is holding a special fund-raising week . |
| 23 | In the interests of conciseness and convention , it is necessary to use here the suffix notation for vector equations which has for the most part been avoided in this book ( the other main exception being the appendix to Chapter 5 ) . |
| 24 | Instead , the Government had supported a daily press in Dar es Salaam , which catered for a relatively small and mainly urban readership . |
| 25 | The saturation resulted in rain , which fell for a very long time . |
| 26 | You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains . |
| 27 | The slogan for MIND , which caters for the mentally ill , is Feelings Count Too . |
| 28 | News of the royal visit , which will be on election day , April 9 , marks the end of 18 months of hoping by the charity , which caters for the mentally ill . |
| 29 | To match a 1000ft reel of film which ran for a little over eleven minutes , a 78rpm turntable had to be slowed to 33 1/3rpm ( 18 ) . |
| 30 | In 1913 Malevitch , whose work at this period showed traces of both Cubist and Futurist influence , was preparing to launch the Suprematist movement which stood for a more purely abstract style than anything yet seen . |