Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 2 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |
| 3 | When a new hotel opens what are the effects on existing hotels which compete for the same customers ? |
| 4 | The former was the obvious clash between Britain 's need for exports to pay her way in the post-war world and the requirement of the rearmament programme , both of which competed for the same scarce skills and resources of the metal-working industries to the detriment of the export trade . |
| 5 | But others who vote for the same party may be motivated by directly opposite considerations — a strong commitment to education , say , but no concern about pensions . |
| 6 | So called ’ Socialist ’ feminists , in true liberal style , fail to put forward a strategy to end capitalism , putting all their energies into the Labour Party who stand for the same redundant ideas which go nowhere towards real change . |
| 7 | The other was her secret lover , smooth , Australian-born lawyer Phillip Levy , who worked for the same newspaper . |
| 8 | She plumps for the latter . |
| 9 | Those who return for the same symptoms or are referred may require more attention . |
| 10 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 11 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |
| 12 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 13 | I hope that future generations will never have to suffer the , and endure the noise that we did for the same purpose . |
| 14 | Faced with the classic choice facing revolutionaries between a quiet family life and the turbulence of the greater good , they opted for the latter . |
| 15 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 16 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 17 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 18 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 19 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 20 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 21 | Has he applied for the same thing ? |
| 22 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 23 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 24 | We quickly downed ours and he called for the same again . |
| 25 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 26 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 27 | Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason — in order to live — but the choice of job may be influenced more by necessity than choice . |