Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 2 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 3 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 4 | An inability to work up any enthusiasm for an Everton attack . |
| 5 | We 're trying to work up some passion for the pageant . |
| 6 | Refer to the compliance unit if the client is an audit client or if there is a possibility that the UK firm has carried out any work for the client in the past . |
| 7 | The lowest price submitted for the work , £232,024 , was from John Kelk of No. 13 South Street , Grosvenor Square , who had already carried out some work for the Government , but is better known as a railway contractor . |
| 8 | If the Revenue is unwilling to publish an annual list , the only practicable alternative is to base the charge on the cost of the car , since it would be burdensome to expect employers to work out this information for themselves . |
| 9 | ‘ Good , now I just want you to save me and yourself a lot of trouble by filling in this form for the Red Cross . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And I have never turned down any woman for a job on the grounds that she might go and get married , or have a baby , thus necessitating six months ’ paid maternity leave . ’ |
| 11 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 12 | Nearly 1,000 tots line up each year for the championship , swimming in competitive matches about once every three weeks during the winter months . |
| 13 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 14 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 15 | Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant . |
| 16 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 17 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , I 'm trying to sort out some transport for a couple of guests . |
| 19 | I fancied seeking out some Synodontis for the new tank , and they are rather prone to burning their scaleless skin by trying to hide under a standard heaterstat . |
| 20 | We got her to help by writing out this queschun for us . |
| 21 | The Government are not prepared to set out any timetable for reaching that limit . |
| 22 | The American administration turned down this offer for fear of weakening the case for constructing the new Diego Garcia base . |
| 23 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 24 | Can you work up any sympathy for them ? |
| 25 | She had an artist friend print up some material for her , using a picture that showed her in profile . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't think you could keep up such softness for long . |
| 27 | They can not keep up this luminosity for long , however , and they should have burnt out long ago . |
| 28 | ‘ And certainly rules out any motive for murder . ’ |
| 29 | It means that changes in productivity have more than wiped out any potential for increased employment through growth in production . |
| 30 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |