Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] for [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standalone it goes for $1,000 and $1,300 respectively . |
| 2 | The papers which he receives for council and committee work are often confidential and he should not disclose the contents of those papers to outsiders . |
| 3 | Born in a Preston slum , and upbraided as ‘ a worldly little devil ’ by his harridan mother because he longs for food and warmth , his acute fear of being thought worldly dominates his subsequent life , causing him to be misunderstood and exploited . |
| 4 | ‘ He lives for football and all his mates from his team are in there with him . |
| 5 | But those who believe in the monarchy like to think it stands for stability and good example . |
| 6 | he searches for females and chivvies them |
| 7 | The Treaty is not written on tablets of stone , it allows for changes and improvements as early as nineteen ninety six . |
| 8 | It allows for subjectivity and freedom of opinion within fairly strict guidelines . |
| 9 | ‘ He bats for average and for power , ’ Stewart said . |
| 10 | It calls for confidence and courage . |
| 11 | Despite the large amount of funding that has been pumped into the scheme teachers are worried by the time it takes for materials and information to get through to them . |
| 12 | He calls for cakes and hot drinks all the time . |
| 13 | He trawls for advice and information from dozens of people , who find themselves invited to Kensington Palace quite out of the blue . |
| 14 | He fishes for oysters and leaves them for her lunch . |
| 15 | The diversity of provision is a reflection of the different functions it serves for children and their families ( e.g. full day care for working parents , part-time nursery education , short-term group play experience ) . |
| 16 | Some of the older cases suggest that there should be no recovery by a person who has suffered prenatal injuries because of the difficulties of proof and of the opening it gives for perjury and speculation . |
| 17 | The more pervasive a structure becomes in a given context , the more difficult it becomes for speakers and writers to select other structures or to depict events differently . |
| 18 | Equity is important in that it fights for improvements and fairness in pay and working conditions , and with over 44,000 members competing for probably some 5–7,000 jobs in any given working week , it tries to ensure that the work goes to professionally accredited people , those with training or suitable professional experience . |
| 19 | He works for Page and Glassman . |
| 20 | ‘ He works for Spiderglass and asks for danger-money ! ’ |