Example sentences of "[verb] for a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | gave a judgment to the like effect , although he limited his remarks to the ability of a corporation to sue for a libel reflecting on the management of its trade or business . |
| 2 | They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available . |
| 3 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 4 | This was a team event , with 7 countries competing for a trophy named after Joan Scruton . |
| 5 | The tiny racing cars , operated by two sponsored five-men teams , zoomed around a 24-yard track competing for a trophy donated by Major Marques car restorers of Sherborne . |
| 6 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 7 | At the foot of the steps Lan stopped for a moment to turn and stare back at Joseph . |
| 8 | Suddenly he noticed how pale I was , and stopped for a moment to let me get my breath back . |
| 9 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 10 | The amount of money received for a service rendered is not dependent upon who you are , but upon the abstract relations within which the service is performed , for example as wage labour . |
| 11 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 12 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 13 | He then applied for a mandamus directed to the visitor to hear an appeal on the grounds that the earlier appeal to the visitor had been no true appeal at all . |
| 14 | I was caused to go for a walk to get some fresh m-m-m-m-m-m — |
| 15 | Even allowing for a desire to please his audience , sentiments of that sort sound better news than warnings of confrontation . |
| 16 | Have you ever lobbied for a woman to win the prize ? |
| 17 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Whitehouse was determined that something should be done , and arranged for a QC to visit the theatre and watch a performance . |
| 19 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 20 | An enthusiastic crowd gathered for a poolside launching . |
| 21 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 22 | This dilemma has led both courts and academics to search for a test to determine which parts of the X factor should , and which parts should not , be held to go to jurisdiction . |
| 23 | The decision to search for a partner has been taken ‘ in the context of competing investment requirements ’ across the broad sweep of BAe 's business interests . |
| 24 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 25 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 26 | Karelius awoke that morning at half-past six , and lay for a while thinking about Fräulein Müller . |
| 27 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 28 | Thus , the US Administration 's contention that its planned reductions in CFCs will compensate for a failure to set emission targets for the main greenhouse gas , carbon dioxide , now appears less defensible . |
| 29 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 30 | Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire . |