Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychic phenomena seemed to cry out for , and lend themselves to , scientific investigation . |
| 2 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 3 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 4 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 5 | It was based on the construction of a questionnaire , the Parental Attitude Research Inventory ( PARI ) , in which parents were asked to indicate their agreement with such statements as ‘ A child will be grateful later on for strict training , ’ and ‘ Children should realize how much parents have to give up for them . ’ |
| 6 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 7 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 8 | With freight costs tending sharply upwards , many crude-oil buyers began to shop around for discounts : despite formal OPEC condemnation of breaches of price discipline , such buyers were not always disappointed . |
| 9 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 10 | Officials warned to look out for banned runner |
| 11 | Giants set to sign up for showdown |
| 12 | Things started to look up for me . |
| 13 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 14 | For instance , the beginning could be ‘ It was a nice sunny day and all the fishes decided to go out for a swim . |
| 15 | The provision of suitable storage space within each area , so that most things have a place in which they fit or belong , enables children to try to tidy up for themselves , though they will doubtless need their teacher 's help to begin with . |
| 16 | Men , perhaps , should be encouraged to realise that women want to speak up for themselves , they do n't really like being told what they want by men . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that Dr L regarded the humanities with some contempt , arguing that students go to sign on for a medieval history course in the arts faculty and |
| 18 | Stopping smoking is a personal decision which smokers have to carry through for themselves . |
| 19 | As we know , the whole indignity that women have to go through for these examinations is , of necessity , I am afraid , an unpleasant experience . |
| 20 | While the employers tended to cast around for reasons outside the work process when they wished to disparage women workers , unionists spoke more often of the low level of women compositors " skill . |
| 21 | just in Batham all those removes having to look out for the sixth form smoking |
| 22 | When employees fail to turn up for work today , it can often cause huge management headaches , particularly in labour intensive industries where absence may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system . |