Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 2 | By identifying cash deficits at the planning stage a firm will be in a good position to arrange financing for the deficit . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 4 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 5 | I did n't want to wait for the baby to appear through the navel . |
| 6 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 7 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 8 | It has been a fashion among Opposition Members — indeed , this was reported by the hon. Gentleman tonight — to suggest that the access funds alone are intended to compensate for the withdrawal of benefits generally and that the £25 million , which he correctly quoted , must , therefore , be inadequate . |
| 9 | They will keep this addition , which is intended to compensate for the VAT they can not reclaim . |
| 10 | Even if the original tenant is forced to join a guarantor , it may be advisable for the guarantor 's covenant to be amended to provide for the guarantor 's liability to cease on an assignment by the tenant . |
| 11 | from the process of the regular review of departments and faculties by ad hoc review bodies , which always include strong external representation ( this formal review procedure has recently been amended to provide for the review of all departments and faculties on , approximately , a ten-year cycle rather than , as previously , simply associating reviews with the impending retirement of a head of department ) ; and |
| 12 | The threshold time is therefore automatically raised or lowered to compensate for the reader being swept too slowly or too quickly . |
| 13 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 15 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
| 16 | Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements . |
| 17 | But Paul says : ‘ There 's no way they 're coming they just want to go for the ale ! ’ |
| 18 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 19 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers . |
| 20 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers . |
| 21 | If life has developed for the enjoyment that it brings , and it started with the existence of a single cell , then it is reasonable to suppose that the single cell was capable of the detection of an extremely small measure of ‘ pleasure ’ which it could experience by satisfying some ‘ desire ’ . |
| 22 | This also meant that they could get away earlier at night after the show , as they did n't need to wait for the curtain . |
| 23 | if the driver has stopped for the purpose of complying with regulation 8 or regulation 10 ( to accord precedence and not overtake ) ; |
| 24 | Pietro Petraroia , soprintendente of the Brera , has arranged for the painting to be temporarily transferred to Milan for a detailed technical and stylistic comparison to be undertaken . |
| 25 | He has arranged for the agency staff to have lunch with the Managing Director and two experts in pollution control from the parent company who have travelled a considerable distance to attend . |
| 26 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 27 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 28 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 29 | Once that 's secured and defended at least once , Weir wants to go for the flyweight title , held until recently by Pat Clinton . |
| 30 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |