Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun sg] [prep] " 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 position of a secured creditor is to be contrasted with that of an unsecured creditor who merely has a personal claim to sue for the payment of his debt and to invoke the available legal processes for the enforcement of any judgment that he may obtain . |
| 3 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 4 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 5 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 6 | Other propositions may not be testable even in principle but may remain for the time as a necessary component of an overall paradigm . |
| 7 | The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision . |
| 8 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 9 | Puritans also believed it to be their pressing duty to agitate for the introduction of godly reforms into the church . |
| 10 | Despite the stronger US dollar in the latter part of 1992 , the average sterling price of oil realised for the year at £10.95 per barrel [ 1991 £11.00 ] was also marginally lower . |
| 11 | Essentially , of course , a freehold is seen as an appreciating asset the value of which can be realised for the benefit of the firm free from tax ( where the proceeds of sale are reinvested in other firm property ) . |
| 12 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 13 | So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , |
| 14 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 15 | Print enthusiasts will have to wait for the publication of David Landau and Peter Parshall 's forthcoming book on Renaissance printmaking to be published by Yale University Press next year for a full discussion of such matters . |
| 16 | I shouted wildly , as we walked together out of the front door , to wait for the coach in the road . |
| 17 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 18 | And to complete the picture there is an example of an unconserved clock … but visitors may have to wait for the Museum of Scotland to see this one tick ! |
| 19 | ‘ And of course the Pistols will have to wait for the return of better weather . ’ |
| 20 | The Ferryhill driver has also been instructed to wait for the arrival of the Crook bus before pulling out . |
| 21 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 22 | A little struggling lilac tree in the back yard died , because , Belinda said , too many men had pissed on it , out the window , not bothering to wait for the lavatory to be free . |
| 23 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 24 | Half a gross on each board yeah , oh you could n't move away from your board at all and it was erm Mr his eyes seemed to be perhaps I should n't tell you this , but I 'm going to , it may be a bit humorous for you my er Mr used to send me out through the back way into street I think it is now , to wait for the paperman with a sporting book oh should I have said that ? |
| 25 | ‘ It is certainly very strange but we will have to wait for the outcome of an investigation . ’ |
| 26 | The hotel 's owners have made it clear they are not obliged to wait for the outcome of today 's inspection . |
| 27 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 28 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 29 | Alloa , with a 52-0 victory over Cambuslang , and Livingston , with a 14-13 win against Linlithgow , stay in Division Four but Linlithgow will have to wait for the result of Cartha Queen 's Park 's final match before their fate is known against the already relegated Lismore . |
| 30 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |