Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 2 | With a choice of simple current/deposit account facilities , fixed deposit accounts , or managed currency funds and a highly personalised level of private banking , you may need to shop around for the most suitable . |
| 3 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 4 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 5 | As Britain 's largest electricity maker , NatPower has to shop around for the cheapest fuel available . |
| 6 | There are a few of us ( 3 at mo — myself , a mate and Steve Walsh ) who want to come down for the Oxford match from Durham/Newcastle . |
| 7 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 8 | Wants to look around for the wallet while I 'm not here , thought Joe . |
| 9 | The premium is either with the product or the purchaser has to send off for the premium . |
| 10 | ‘ You want to watch out for the lorries . |
| 11 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 12 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 13 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 14 | In one more smooth movement his own shirt was gone , and as she looked at him her naked skin seemed to cry out for the touch of his . |
| 15 | The Immigration and Customs people at Ramsgate had been instructed to watch out for the Renault 18 but to keep a low profile and let it through . |
| 16 | Sterland announced his return to fitness by saying : ‘ I am picking up my training steadily and looking to turn out for the reserves in the middle of next week . |
| 17 | After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team . |
| 18 | She thought it might be the one that was always being made to speak up for the others , but she could n't be sure ; it 's difficult to tell one beetle from another . |
| 19 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 20 | However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice . |
| 21 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 22 | I say to him [ husband ] I 'm going to clear off for the day and you can do it all one day , and you 'll see what it 's like . |
| 23 | I think we should have all what we 're going to have in for the bazaar thing , . |
| 24 | It was n't just here and now , he was part of the past and he was going to sign up for the WEA history and archaeology classes . |
| 25 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 26 | They are both the product of good intentions : old-Etonian William Waldegrave has promised to speak up for the ‘ little guy ’ . |
| 27 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 28 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 29 | We hold special events every month , with an Indian day next month , and whenever possible we like to dress up for the occasion . ’ |
| 30 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |