Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in the eyes of the law , they have committed a crime , but if you put that situation before a jury , and even though the judge may instruct the jury , a crime has been committed , you must find them guilty , the jury 's inclination will probably be to say , natural justice , you , that you you done what was required of you , that you do n't deserve to be either convicted or sent to prison for it . |
| 2 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 3 | Judge Lawrence Rubin warned : ‘ Sort yourself out — or go to prison for three years . ’ |
| 4 | The command you can see starts or switches to Word for Windows ( the USEEXIST makes the button switch to Word if it 's already open , and the IMAX sizes its window to leave the Power Launcher toolbar clear at the top of the screen , and icons clear at the bottom ) . |
| 5 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 6 | In the early 1960s the king became a major actor in the events that led to independence for his country in 1968 . |
| 7 | T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child . |
| 8 | It was a christening that seemed to hunger for significance . |
| 9 | " The flower girl " ( Pygmalion ) was the first book that came to mind for one very elderly survivor . " |
| 10 | It is full of lies and it is this that leads to disaster for Blanche . |
| 11 | ‘ Aye , well , folks that come to Wickrithe for their holidays should be used to it , ’ Gran said . |
| 12 | In JMD and JMB 's absence — mail written in JMB 's mail book and passed to GWM/MAR/CMG for advice . |
| 13 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 14 | All patients were in hospital and confined to bed for at least 24 hours after ERCP . |
| 15 | The Editor found it pleasing to think of office workers relaxing in the saloon 's comfortable armchairs and listening to music for a while instead of the click of typewriters . |
| 16 | Gardiner was convicted and sentenced to life for the killing … and the armed robbery case was not proceeded with . |
| 17 | On February 11 this year , after a two-week trial , Iain was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to detention for life . |
| 18 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |
| 19 | Society imposes an obligation to look after his parents , as a debt owed to them for his upbringing , and owed to society for passing on to his children the obligation to do the same for him . |
| 20 | The dog must have run away and , being such a pampered animal , crawled back and pined to death for its mistress . |
| 21 | A spokesman for Cleveland police said the men were arrested after a joint operation with Tyneside police early yesterday and brought to Teesside for questioning . |
| 22 | Kill me if you like , but if you let me live , I 'll do what I can to save you when you 're arrested and brought to trial for piracy . ’ |
| 23 | Tom Stonier has envisaged a scenario where children learn at home , guided by technology and grandparents and go to school for socialization . |
| 24 | He wanted to lie down in front of the fire and go to sleep for a long , long time . |
| 25 | Pepita grew into a fine , beautiful woman and went to work for the banana shippers as her father had done until he retired at sixty-two . |
| 26 | He Saw The Light seven or eight years ago , and went to work for the Verfassung-schutz at Ehrenfeld . |
| 27 | He left the Empress Works in 1911 and went to work for Norman Crossland , as mechanic in charge . |
| 28 | Ernest Saunders , who took the Tories at their word , and went to prison for his trouble . |
| 29 | Six millilitres of blood were drawn into a syringe containing 11 ml of acid citrate dextrose ( National Institutes of Health formula A ) , dispensed into two sterile polythene tubes , and allowed to sediment for one hour at room temperature . |
| 30 | Sixty ml of blood were drawn into a syringe containing 11 ml of acid citrate dextrose ( National Institutes of Health , formula A ) , dispensed into two sterile polythene tubes , and allowed to sediment for 1 hour at room temperature . |