Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 2 | Peter Bergg , prospective Liberal Democrat candidate for Darlington : ‘ The disgusting thing is that he has borrowed to pay for tax cuts . |
| 3 | OSF is a great success , HP alleges , because of the market ‘ pull ’ it has managed to generate for Motif , DCE and DME . |
| 4 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 5 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 6 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 7 | I was never unduly ambitious , certainly not for financial or personal gain , but I have always felt compelled to strive for progress , which is perhaps the urge of all creative people . |
| 8 | Originally I 'd hoped to apply for Scale 2 posts … but there are very few jobs , now . |
| 9 | Having turned to allow for drift , check the L/R needle for any movement away from the circle . |
| 10 | Lunch consisted of bread and cheese , neither of which Charlie would have dared to offer for sale to Mrs Smelley . |
| 11 | No Englishman could now have presented himself in Vienna without attracting the attention of the Grand Army , and with his accent he could not have hoped to pass for Austrian . |
| 12 | On a final afternoon in which lesser mortals might have wanted to run for cover the European team fought on even though at times its causes seemed hopeless . |
| 13 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 14 | Mr Bouverie was a solicitor , Peter said , but he had wanted to be a priest , had intended to try for ordination if cancer had not prevented it . |
| 15 | Her faithful shadow , a Yorkshire terrier called Heathcliffe , was just as confused ; and the time that we had arranged to meet for lunch was fast approaching . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come to ask for help , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 18 | He had decided to opt for medicine rather than the stage , and had felt virtuous , mildly sacrificial , a little self-important while making this choice . |
| 19 | The first question in each of the opening interviews was why the practice had decided to apply for fundholding status . |
| 20 | This conjecture was reinforced when , on May 28 , the North Korean Foreign Ministry issued a terse statement which announced that the government had decided to apply for membership of the UN . |
| 21 | you 've got to go for size of the |
| 22 | ‘ You 've got to wait for Doctor to come along and give you permission . |
| 23 | It was a terrible sin , she said : which means we 've got to pray for forgiveness . |
| 24 | Yeah but the thing is , it 's something that we 've got to think for life really , or we 're just gon na be in the same situation in a couple of years that we wan na something a bit bigger . |
| 25 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 26 | First he had had to apply for permission ( not easy to get ) from the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 27 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |
| 28 | Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons . |
| 29 | He had gone to look for wood . |
| 30 | They remained obstinately silent , abject looking as well , the camouflage they had learned to use for safekeeping . |