Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 61 | Having driven thirty miles and for fifty minutes , he is forced to slow down for the first time . |
| 62 | Pilots should be encouraged to make an assessment during the final turn of how much airbrake they will need as they start to straighten up for the final approach , instead of waiting until the turn is completed at which point it is already too late . |
| 63 | One cafe and clothesshop owner says he was forced to close down for the weekend . |
| 64 | Thomas is seeking to recoup from Essex the fees his parents have had to pay to make up for the lack of state-funded special tuition available to him . |
| 65 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 66 | Unless something is done , dealer margins will continue in free fall and the customers will continue to shop around for the best price in the belief that service is universally lousy , and that 's in nobody 's interest . |
| 67 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 68 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 69 | This first encounter between Marco and the boy known as the Rat is not friendly — at least not until the two lads , each with his own particular air of authority , have confirmed their direct loyalty to the disturbed country and have begun to work out for the ‘ Club ’ a youthful but intelligent strategy for revolution . |
| 70 | I wish I thought better about the opportunities 1992 has to offer , but realistically I do n't think we 've even begun to limber up for the competition . ’ |
| 71 | Unfortunately , if you got too close to him you were tempted to look around for the source of the odour — perhaps there was an overdressed salad in the vicinity ? |
| 72 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 73 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 74 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 75 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 76 | But the journey took longer than they planned , because they had to watch out for the evil troll who lurked under the bridge . |
| 77 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 78 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 79 | By the way the lot of seemed to be played in Hertfordshire these days , and one of the great days is at Harpenden and that 's on September the first on Sunday , when they have their annual single-wicket competition , and that 's a great local event and it 's bound to encourage all the young cricketers in the neighbourhood , they 're trying to make up for the lack of cricket in schools , so well done Harpenden and that is on Sunday next , er , er , first of September and I 'll give you the time in a minute if I can find it , when it is , it does n't say , but it 's probably all day at the Harpenden club , well done Harpenden encouraging young people to play cricket , Sunday first September . |
| 80 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 81 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 82 | They looked into one another 's eyes , and kissed with a great tenderness , as though they had to make up for the anger last time . |
| 83 | With Richard Dunwoody claimed for Gambling Royal , Graham McCourt is poised to step in for the ride on Grand National winner Party Politics . |
| 84 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 85 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |
| 86 | So they both agreed to show off for the evening . |
| 87 | ‘ You have to go out for the kids , you have to go to the schools and sign autographs . |
| 88 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 89 | Fighting the Empire you have to look out for the Helblaster volley gun . |
| 90 | Peanuts are perfect badger bribes — just the same type that you buy to put out for the birds . |