Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family has since continued to search for Nuri ‘ Abd al-Karim and his sons at various detention centres , police stations , prisons and hospitals but the three remain ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 2 | Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has since tried to compensate for the ill-favoured move with assurances that the new bodies would have the resources to perform at least as well as the old NCC . |
| 3 | Economic Man , seeing two boxes of chocolates , of which one is cheaper because the manufacturer has not had to pay for consequential damage to some third party , would choose that cheaper box . |
| 4 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 5 | Not by plane , we 'll catch the train and then the ferry like before , almost nostalgically since when the tunnel is open , there 'll be no more frontiers to cross : the sea , I think again , has already ceased to exist for England . |
| 6 | I ca n't imagine he has ever had to search for his mother , or had narcolepsy , or become a hustler , yet he does all three so brilliantly in the film it breaks your heart . |
| 7 | ‘ From what you and Aubrey have told me about Alice 's life , she has always had to fend for herself . |
| 8 | The company has also agreed to pay for half a day 's training at its own centre . |
| 9 | The government has also failed to account for many hundreds who ‘ disappeared ’ in custody after an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1977 . |
| 10 | The Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough has also refused to apply for media passes for similar reasons . |
| 11 | The firm has now decided to settle for an apology from the youths , which will be published in the local press . |
| 12 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 13 | Having devoted most of his political life to touring constituencies and union branches , he has barely needed to campaign for the constituency section of the executive over the past two months . |
| 14 | It is often worthwhile looking at methods the patient has previously tried to use for the present problem to see whether , with modification , these might be tried again . |
| 15 | It seems a strange and very unjust decision to pick Jim Courier for reasons of his present ranking but who bears no comparison in performance as a Davis Cup player and , even more surprising , as he has actually refused to play for the US team recently . |
| 16 | He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her . |
| 17 | It was ironic , I thought , that for the expedition for Gareth and Coconut I 'd deliberately chosen to aim for a spot on the map that looked as remote from any road as possible . |
| 18 | They was only , they 'd either got to pay for accommodation at a lodging house or go to the workhouse , they called them then , which is the casual ward , and at the casual ward they were required to bath on admission , which a lot of them did n't like , they were compelled to do certain work . |
| 19 | Switching between one-day and five-day mode was unpopular with the players , and the new showbiz-style razzmatazz that accompanied the games seemed specifically designed to cater for the drunken yobbos who turned up by the cartload . |
| 20 | But , although she smiled briefly at Folly in a friendly enough way , she seemed too distracted to wait for an answer , and started to usher them inside . |
| 21 | Ah but see you 've still got to pay for it have n't you ? |
| 22 | Certainly the intermediate standing of many of these men is plain to see ; the alternating qualifications of £10 in lands and £100 in goods seem specifically designed to cater for small-town merchants and the less affluent London ones , conceding statutory confirmation of the observation that they ‘ often change estate with gentlemen ’ . |
| 23 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 24 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 25 | There had already been one heated exchange between herself and the school managers , when Outram had pointedly refused to apologize for introducing controversial subjects . |
| 26 | Remember , we 've all got to fight for the future now . ’ |
| 27 | Others , such as Eric Bremner , a 28-year-old physics teacher , had only decided to apply for water shares on the spur of the moment . |
| 28 | But the Prime Minister 's account of his own conversation at the palace earlier that morning reveals that the King had already determined to try for a National Government headed by MacDonald . |
| 29 | Had not wanted to know for good and certain . |
| 30 | In fact , this was the only spectacle which Mrs Goreng had not had to contrive for the benefit of her guests . |