Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 2 | The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages . |
| 3 | The contras ' new military commander , Israel Galeano ( who replaced Enrique Bermúdez , the organization 's nominal head , in early February ) , said , however , that the contras intended to wait for the formal handover of power before disbanding . |
| 4 | A week later , when the workers had to vote for the new Committee , most of the women voted for Karen . |
| 5 | There were still bits and pieces left to organize for the coming weekend , when she was hosting the first major social gathering of the new year . |
| 6 | The buyers who were pig farmers bought a 28 feet high hopper which , as the sellers knew , the buyers intended to use for the storage of pig nuts . |
| 7 | Labourers began to scramble for the available employment ; unemployment increased ; while labourers still continued to anticipate marriage . |
| 8 | Dartmoor was used by the inhabitants of both Devon and Cornwall until AD 850 , after which date common rights began to develop for the Moor , protecting the rights of all but the people of Barnstaple and Totnes ( who were excluded after AD 900 ) , while allowing the area to be hunted by the Wessex kings . |
| 9 | In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers . |
| 10 | British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made . |
| 11 | Only one of these studies attempted to control for the possible effects of changes in price volatility on volume , even though two of these studies ( and others ) found some evidence of a positive relationship between volatility and volume . |
| 12 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 13 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 14 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 15 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 16 | It would seem that the priests fought a hard election campaign for the liberals began to press for the limitation of clerical deputies — a step inconceivable in 1809 . |
| 17 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 18 | A number of British garages refused to quote for the job directly , giving only-their hourly-rates and an estimate of how long it would take . |
| 19 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 20 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 21 | Some of the churches attempted to provide for the needs of their members by maintaining small libraries . |