Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CUSTOMER reports that yesterday he phoned Harrods to ask for the barber shop . |
| 2 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 3 | The Letter of 1027 reports that he visited Rome to pray for the redemption of his sins and the security of his subjects , and tells how he had negotiated with the pope a reduction in the sums paid by English archbishops when they went for the pallium . |
| 4 | Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line . |
| 5 | Now they are devastated by their one-point defeat at the hands of Waterloo and must regret allowing Barnes to play for the Barbarians against Australia . |
| 6 | Applied to the human race , sexual selection allowed Darwin to account for the loss of body hair by assuming that this character had become sexually desirable among our distant ancestors . |
| 7 | To expect Paul to call for the abolition of slavery at this point in time is to be guilty of unhistorical thinking . |
| 8 | And so the board agreed to send Oliver to work for the undertaker . |
| 9 | Arctic employed McGregor to arrange for the carriage of 200 video game machines from Taiwan to Edinburgh . |
| 10 | This seemed to shake Churt out of their stride and inspire Haslemere to go for the winner . |
| 11 | Serota , who danced with the Royal Ballet ( as Angela Beveridge ) , persuaded Bruce to apply for the position of artistic director because she believed he could restore Rambert to the forefront of British dance . |
| 12 | Now God loves the world , he sent Jesus to die for the world , Jesus came , he lived a sinless life , he gave his life on the cross of Calvary , he died there for my sins they were put on him , the whole story of salvation but , salvation in it 's totality is God 's gift , I do not have to merit it . |
| 13 | Until then , cattle had been required mainly for work and milk but an increasing demand for meat inspired Bakewell to breed for the butcher rather than for the plough . |
| 14 | Colonel Ford , worried that he was losing his veteran Captain of skirmishers , had begged d'Alembord to stay for the impending campaign and implicit in the Colonel 's plea was a promise that d'Alembord would receive the next vacant majority in the battalion . |