Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worth seeing for the performances , especially those of George T Odom , Ann D Sanders and Rich himself . |
| 2 | And your telephone then and then you go to this is got ta to go for the page |
| 3 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 4 | Still , Stanley and Iris is well worth catching for the sincerity of its performances and the at least partial originality of its subject matter . |
| 5 | But the motive for praying for the saints is to equip them to minister in the world . |
| 6 | They found a significant negative correlation between returns during trading for the S&P500 and the subsequent returns during trading for the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 7 | He never forgave the chemist ( Sir ) Edward Frankland [ q.v. ] , who had been a colleague , for appearing for the prosecution . |
| 8 | Man City 0 , Spurs 1 PETER REID will soon be signing a new contract at Maine Road , But the City manager could do with signing a player as well , if all the words about challenging for the title are to mean anything . |
| 9 | The procedure for applying for the prerogative remedies of certiorari , prohibition and mandamus is contained in Order 53 of the Rules of the Supreme Court ( RSC ) , some provisions of which have been re-enacted in statutory form in section 31 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 10 | Yeah , we have , I 've got ta wait for the man to come ! |
| 11 | But the disc is probably worth purchasing for the Weill alone , a work which Klemperer commissioned from the composer after attending and enjoying performances of the Dreigroschenoper in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 12 | Oh , you ai n't heard no more about applying for the hospital for a job yet then ? |
| 13 | The goodwill in this case maybe calculated on two to three years ' purchase of so-called absolute net profit ( ie net profit after allowing for the salary of a fully-qualified manager for each shop ) . |
| 14 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 15 | After allowing for the community charge grant , which is now part of aggregate external finance , that is almost £300 million more than this year — an increase of 6.1 per cent . |
| 16 | ‘ Total European volume increased after allowing for the disposal of our animal feeds and packaging operations . |
| 17 | ‘ Total European volume increased after allowing for the disposal of our animal feeds and packaging operations . |
| 18 | After qualifying for the East semi-finals in impressive style , Essex beat Hertfordshire 3–1 and trounced Cambridgeshire 5–1 in the final , after taking a 2–0 lead at half-time . |
| 19 | Graf dropped the last four games of the second set after serving for the match at 5–3 , but then powered past fifth-seeded Sabatini 6–2 5–7 6–1 . |
| 20 | After writing for The Observer and The Times he returned to The Guardian as cricket and , subsequently , wine correspondent in the late 1960s . |
| 21 | Is he out looking for the bastards who stole my father ? ’ |
| 22 | Was n't interested in sc Well I mean interest I suppose But I think what it was to start with I I missed the first term , you know after passing for the county , I missed the first term . |
| 23 | Even after paying for the ferry crossing and a good meal on French soil , they could expect to save more than £800 between them . |
| 24 | ‘ After paying for the carpet we still had enough for a small celebration . ’ |
| 25 | After testing for the role when he executive-produced We 're No Angels , he has taken it up full time , setting up his own company Tribeca Productions and building his own mini-studio in New York . |
| 26 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 27 | But the company 's Canadian parent , The Thomson Corporation , lost ground on its publishing side after providing for the sale or closure of titles in the UK and north America . |
| 28 | Hall then wrote to Palmerston , on 20th March , only one week after asking for the designs , saying that he would not include Donaldson as I think it very doubtful whether the new Department will be proceeded with , as I hope the Downing Street improvement will be carried out' , and two days later The Saturday Review in an article on the competition also suggested that the War Department should be moved to the Downing Street area . |
| 29 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 30 | After closing for the summer , Quiet Storm , the club for an older crowd ( in age but not attitude ) , has reopened at Ormond 's Yard in London on Fridays . |