Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has travelled home to prepare for a World Championship heat in Austria . |
| 2 | It 's a shame really that no-one has come forward to apply for it , because it 's such a lovely , wonderful bungalow . |
| 3 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 4 | UCAN said Amnesty has written back to ask for further details . |
| 5 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 6 | There is one noticeable omission in the cavalcade he has lined up to speak for Europe : Mikhail Gorbachev and his ‘ common European house ’ . |
| 7 | Widnes prop Harvey Howard has vowed never to play for the club again after being refused permission to spend the summer with Australian side Eastern Suburbs by his Norton Park bosses . |
| 8 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 9 | For they would have had either to vote for all the candidates on one list ( implying a commitment they rejected ) or they would have had to switch from one list to another during the voting . |
| 10 | Michael , if I 'd lost him I 'd have gone out to look for him — he died . ’ ’ |
| 11 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 12 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 13 | Nothing in the South Ronaldsay community would approach normality for a very long time , and most people from the village and the surrounding community had turned out to discover for themselves what was happening , and then to lend their support to the stricken families . |
| 14 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 15 | Reports indicated that agreement on the final communiqué was reached only after France had decided not to press for a clearer recognition of a European defence identity distinct from NATO . |
| 16 | Susan Hickey , an executive of the Bonneville Power Administration , which supplies electricity to a number of North-West states , said that the organization had decided consciously to pay for conservation measures because they were the least expensive option . |
| 17 | The company had clubbed together to pay for her and Geoffrey . |
| 18 | They 've clubbed together to pay for the instalation of two video cameras , which scan the only road into the neighbouring villages of Purton and Halmore . |
| 19 | He said simply that he had known where to go for it , and moved on to explain that when Hal MacQuillan made a bid for the paper it was supposed to be his personal fortune that was financing it . |
| 20 | He had known where to look for it when he 'd left the bell tower after finding her corpse . |
| 21 | Though come to think of it , she had known how to ask for what she wanted . |
| 22 | So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone . |
| 23 | He recognized the voice of Beverley 's servant , Parry , who had become anxious about Giles 's safety , and had set out to search for him . |
| 24 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 25 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 26 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the third body , the one in your garden , that 's got more to say for itself . ’ |
| 28 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 29 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 30 | Club bosses are on their toes and a string of new clubs have sprung up to cater for kinky lonely-heart foot fetishists who recently won respectability after a couple of celebrated court cases . |