Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm right at the peak of my career now , and it 's my ambition to go for the ‘ grand slam ’ , ’ said Gunnell , after winning the 400m , her first race in Britain for five months . |
| 2 | These words of Monsignor Guardini , written nearly thirty years after my early musings , expressed a growing need in my thinking to account for the Buddha in the providence of God . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 4 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 5 | She feels the worst part of being unemployed is her inability to plan for the future . |
| 6 | People staying in Les Menuires are spoilt for choice when deciding which direction to take for the day 's skiing . |
| 7 | Some are the head of the family with husband and children dependent on their salary some are single parents and some rely on their income to provide for the shortfall in their partner 's earnings . |
| 8 | Social services are standing by their decision to pay for the 14-year old to stay at his grandparents ' villa , but refused to talk about the inquiry . |
| 9 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 10 | On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property . |
| 11 | Mrs Kinnock , 47 , last month announced her intention to stand for the 1994 European Parliament elections in the South East Wales constituency . |
| 12 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 . |
| 13 | Nineteen companies have indicated their intention to bid for the contract to computerise Hungary 's tax system , with three more companies expected to join the fray in the next few days . |
| 14 | THE world champion , Garry Kasparov , and the British challenger , Nigel Short , have forfeited their right to play for the world championship title , according to the official ruling body of chess , the International Chess Federation ( FIDE ) . |
| 15 | Finally , when they get back home once again they are ‘ in demand ’ , and it is in their nature to work for the family again and put their own wants or needs to the bottom of the pile ! |
| 16 | Mrs Coles expressed great regret when she parted with Mary , continued to provide her clothes and had her back to stay for the Christmas holidays . |
| 17 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 18 | But other couples will either find a way through and re-negotiate their relationship to allow for the different people that they 've now become , or they may shelve them because they get caught up in the , the very busyness of life , what we call the , the productivity phase , which is the third phase , where couples are maybe having children , building up a family , building up careers ; they 're involved in that sort of activity . |
| 19 | Its authority to work for the removal of all barriers to the free movement of coal and steel rested on a wide array of actions , ranging from non-binding recommendations to binding decisions . |
| 20 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 21 | The county council will have to ask colleges to bid for money on its behalf to pay for the vocational adult education courses it runs . |
| 22 | At fifteen , Melanie went with her mother 's permission to her doctor to ask for the Pill , but this was refused . |
| 23 | Beth had soon discovered that David Miller had many weaknesses , but the one that concerned her most , and gave her reason to fear for the future , was his blind love for and loyalty to the monster who had raised him . |
| 24 | Beth still saw it as her duty to provide for the old man , though he rarely ate anything she prepared . |
| 25 | Welcome back : One of England 's longest established families is selling its silverware to pay for the upkeep of its country home . |
| 26 | This can help them overcome their tendency to listen for the words rather than the message . |
| 27 | Several aspects of the social circumstances of older people are important when discussing their ability to pay for the care they require . |
| 28 | Alessandra Mussolini , granddaughter of Il Duce , has been a hit with photographers , although only the foreign press have paid attention to her pretence to campaign for the neo-fascist party . |
| 29 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 30 | Now he thought he knew the sort of case he had to deal with , and what he had read had pointed which way to look for the killer . |