Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 2 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 3 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 4 | IT will be a great relief to Abi King at the Arts Theatre if the props she needs for a new play can be turned up by the public at large . |
| 5 | ‘ She wakes for a few minutes and then is unconscious for several hours , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 6 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 7 | She calls for a national policy for dealing with runaway children , and more government funding . |
| 8 | She kneels for a red flower , picks it , later |
| 9 | Next year she hopes for a larger venue , with catering facilities . |
| 10 | She works for a national campaign on homelessness . |
| 11 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 12 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
| 13 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 14 | It stands for a positive policy — Socialism at home and internationally " . |
| 15 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 16 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 17 | It searches for a fallen corolla , |
| 18 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 19 | Yet he passes for a moderate within the fierce revolutionary council , the Dergue . |
| 20 | Eight quid it costs for a new visor . |
| 21 | It calls for a great deal of skill and judgment and is a shot that needs to be practised regularly in order to play it well . |
| 22 | But above all , it calls for a co-ordinated approach from the private , voluntary and public sectors to the development of sport in Scotland and suggests how that might be achieved . |
| 23 | And since extraction for horticulture currently presents the main threat to the bogs , it calls for a major initiative to encourage the use of peat-free growing media and soil conditions . |
| 24 | It calls for a new constitutional settlement which enshrines civil rights in a Bill of Rights , and places the executive under the power of a democratically renewed Parliament , and all State agencies under the rule of law . |
| 25 | It calls for a generous spirit , a light hand and a large heart . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I learned from him , more vividly than from anyone else , that the study of the New Testament is an exciting adventure , and that while it calls for a rigorous-critical discipline , it is not made less scientific if the student brings to it his own experience of faith . ’ |
| 27 | But overall , the report says more information 's needed and it calls for a careful record to be kept of all future suicides and attempts . |
| 28 | The existing case law is frequently archaic and uncertain and contradictory ; it calls for a fresh start . |
| 29 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
| 30 | Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two |