Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco Ferrero wishes to apologize for the delay in sending out his Kayak & Mountain brochure but by now it should be on the way to all who requested it . |
| 2 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 3 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 4 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 5 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 6 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 7 | Now I can not bear the darkness and have to keep on relighting the candle , fumbling for the matches in the total darkness . |
| 8 | Without conscious thought she found she was pushing her hands inside his shirt , fumbling for the buttons in a frenzy of haste which made him smile against her lips . |
| 9 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 10 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 11 | Lightbown argues on the basis of all the published evidence that Piero 's National Gallery ‘ Baptism of Christ ’ was painted for the Pieve in Sansepolcro ( which was the only church in the town where baptisms were performed before 1520 ) and not the Priory of San Giovanni Battista d'Afra as most , including Bertelli , believe . |
| 12 | These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market . |
| 13 | Allowing for the differences in stance has far more chance of success : then it is just a question of deciding which way the ball will fly from certain lies . |
| 14 | Even allowing for the similarities in language in these respects , however , the Conservative proposals sometimes had a different content from the Redcliffe-Maud approach . |
| 15 | Now , by analysing a sample of customer addresses by ACORN he or she can set sales targets for each ACORN type ; and by allowing for the population in each type in each sales territory , he or she can set quotas which relate directly to the potential for business in each area . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Senator Bennett R. Hapgood rose to his feet on the podium erected for the purpose in the sweeping grounds of the open-air Hancock Center in the heart of Austin and surveyed the crowd with satisfaction . |
| 17 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 18 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 19 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 20 | A summary of the limits of cover under the special scheme arranged for the holidays in this brochure is shown below . |
| 21 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 22 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 23 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |
| 24 | Around 30 members of the clergy and laity gathered for the meeting in Cheltenham . |
| 25 | To compensate a bit for the loss , Greatest Hits from that long and illustrious lineage — ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ and its copains — have been gathered for the nonce in a smaller space elsewhere in the museum . |
| 26 | Where partners are sued in the name of their firm , unless the plaintiff requests that he ( the plaintiff ) serve a partner personally , service is effected in the first instance by the court by first class postal service to the address given for the firm in the request for summons ( N 201 – 4 ) . |
| 27 | Unless the plaintiff requests that he ( the plaintiff ) serve personally , service is effected in the first instance by the court by first class postal service to the address given for the defendant in the request for summons ( N 201 – 4 , 208 or 209 ) . |
| 28 | A Mareva injunction was granted by the English court , but the Irish action was the one which went to trial , judgment being given for the plaintiff in the sum of some £3.4 million . |
| 29 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 30 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |