Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 2 | Ten and a half thousand fans will pack in here for the Pilkington Cup semi-final . |
| 3 | The ventral arm plates are approximately rounded pentagonal in shape becoming broader than long and rectangular on distal segments and separated except occasionally for the second and third ventral plates . |
| 4 | The Colonial Secretary , Oliver Lyttleton , announced in October that all the proposals were accepted save only for the suggestion that the Gold Coast should at once be transferred from the Colonial Office to the Commonwealth Relations Office . |
| 5 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 6 | She says as how you 'd ring from here for the ambulance . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Balladur , however , is not waiting until then for the money . |
| 8 | For better or worse , it is a de-historicized ‘ history ’ : a reservoir of literary and cultural materials that can be drawn on precisely for the purpose of making novels ; a reservoir , more exactly , of cultures , themes , characters , rhetorical forms , stereotypes and structures … |
| 9 | I 'm still going over here for the function keys . |
| 10 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 11 | And Vivienne kept telling me , I should have stayed on just for the grant . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll have to go in here for the time being . ’ |
| 13 | Dealers who had flown in just for the sale were bitterly disappointed ( though they could privately view the works at Christie 's nonetheless ) , and the lavish , hard-bound catalogue became unobtainable overnight . |
| 14 | Too late department : leading wearers of dust-masks ALTERN 8 took the stage at Stafford 's Bingley Hall last weekend with a special guest star , an African witch-doctor flown in specially for the occasion . |
| 15 | Note , users must log out and log in again for the new quotas to take effect . |
| 16 | The issue of non-accidental injury , although mentioned under psychological factors , obviously also has physical , sociocultural , environmental and politicoeconomic aspects and is another reminder that although in this textbook , the five factors are dealt with separately for the purposes of discussion , in reality they are closely related . |
| 17 | Mercer Lorrimore 's colours , red and white like the rosette he had pinned on gamely For the Sake of Canadian Racing , could be seen entering the outermost stall . |
| 18 | Yeah , I wonder what cartoons they 'll have on tomorrow for the kid 's holiday ah ? |
| 19 | It 'd be a daft name to live with anyway for the rest of your life ! |
| 20 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 21 | Both for the I 'm talking about both for the from the trader 's point of view and also for the also |
| 22 | Alan says : ’ I was amazed at the advice I received because their Mitchell Philpott told me not to transfer at least for the time being . |
| 23 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 24 | Abandoning his landing party , Emden 's captain Karl von Muller made at once for the open sea and opened fire with his ten 10.5cm guns , destroying Sydney 's fire-direction system . |
| 25 | I mean I 've lived in here for the last fourtee thirteen years and I 've lived in Northern Ireland and Bradford and all sorts . |
| 26 | And while you were , while you were using a film which you had in anyway for the next day 's performance and putting in that slot |
| 27 | For some sections of the labour force , prosperous years which had begun in the 1780s continued at least for the first part of the war . |
| 28 | The Poles hoped at least for the award of Danzig , the nearby town of Elbing , the Vistula delta and the tiny republic of Memel . |
| 29 | Day Three : After an overnight berth in Bad Schandau , your cruise continues at 6.00am for the cruise to Usti , arriving around 4.00pm . |
| 30 | I do n't wish to seem importunate , but if you do intend to sever the agreement I will be obliged to ask at least for the reimbursement of the expenses of my journey . ’ |