Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is very much in contention for a first-team place , although he may not think so after playing for the juniors . |
| 2 | Retribution was not long in coming for the Partick side who , last Saturday , lost four goals for the second league game in succession . |
| 3 | The help given in the first period of Addenbrookes , when the plaintiff had her own room and was for much of the time still in a coma , was clearly signifidant , significant , not only in caring for the plaintiff 's physical needs , but in giving the support and encouragement which no doubt contributed greatly to the plaintiff 's emergence from that coma . |
| 4 | She found her bearings conventionally enough by working for the US information office in Bogota , Colombia , and then in Rio di Janeiro where she acquired a lifelong love for Brazil . |
| 5 | It is only by preparing for the future that Lothian Highways staff can ensure that there will be a successful future . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it is not certainly fictitious , for the paucity of English sources on the later years of Cnut 's reign makes their silence inconclusive , and Robert may have been moved not only by feeling for the æthelings and his apparent friendship for their sister Godgifu 's husband , Count Dreux of the Vexin , but also by memories of his rift with Cnut 's sister Estrith . |
| 7 | A week away from leaving for the European leg of the current Michael Jackson tour , she was enjoying a two day break in what sounded like a hectic rehearsal schedule . |
| 8 | There 's been no keeping Joanna Trollope away from filming for The Rector 's Wife … most of it 's taken place not far from the author 's home near Cirencester . |
| 9 | Because one 's involved whether one likes it or not , just by caring for the person concerned . ’ |
| 10 | Most frequently , under the two-party system , all these requirements are met easily by sending for the Leader of the Opposition or of the majority party , as the case may be , upon the fall of government-as happened , for example , in 1945 and 1951 . |
| 11 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 12 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 13 | Richard is said to have favoured the axe as a hand-to-hand weapon , and a contemporary poem records that he had one made specially before departing for the Holy Land : |
| 14 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |
| 15 | I went home without waiting for the King 's thanks , because I was not sure what he would say . |
| 16 | Sitting up in her hospital bed in the Lancashire resort 's Victoria Hospital , Nicola told staff that she was trying to make her money go further by making for the seaside town . |
| 17 | But the disc is probably worth purchasing for the Weill alone , a work which Klemperer commissioned from the composer after attending and enjoying performances of the Dreigroschenoper in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 18 | Erm you will also in going for the higher end of the range , er be prejudicing the urban regeneration objectives of those neighbouring districts . |
| 19 | Hospital nursing is mainly about caring for the sick . |
| 20 | The very existence of a national-territorial framework in the USSR , indeed , far from providing for the peaceful solution of the nationalities question that was originally envisaged , appeared to have led to precisely the opposite result by establishing a form of representation in which sectional interests , denied any other means of expression , could in practice take only the form of ‘ nationalism ’ . |
| 21 | Still , Stanley and Iris is well worth catching for the sincerity of its performances and the at least partial originality of its subject matter . |
| 22 | The new CD is well worth investigating for the Violin Concerto . |
| 23 | It is this aspect of military style that is well worth studying for the precision with which a battalion of soldiers makes patterns such as can be seen at the British ceremony of ‘ Trooping the Colour ’ . |
| 24 | Frank Walker retired two years ago after working for the South Tees Health authority for 23 years . |
| 25 | On the other hand , different types of household have very different incomes , even after standardizing for the number of people in the household and including all sources of income : households of elderly women living alone are poorer than other types of household . |
| 26 | For instance , Fox and Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have noted that a clear North-South contrast in mortality rates remained even after standardizing for the socio-economic character of areas . |
| 27 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 28 | Even after paying for the ferry crossing and a good meal on French soil , they could expect to save more than £800 between them . |
| 29 | There was no cool period here of waiting for the ice to break . |
| 30 | WASPS come to attention in the league tomorrow by calling for the old guard in an effort to repulse Gloucester 's rugged raiders at Sudbury . |