Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the Soviets ' penchant for canvassing exhaustively for the best and cheapest may succeed in these objectives , but at the cost of enormous delay between the time when applications are approved and machinery actually installed . |
| 2 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 3 | A few of the songs here appeared on Setzer 's ‘ The Knife Feels Like Justice ’ records , but this new LP is still probably worth checking out for the rumbling ‘ ( Do n't Sell My Daddy ) No More Whiskey ’ . |
| 4 | After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire . |
| 5 | The general conclusion of these analyses was that unemployment and imprisonment were related , in the sense that , after controlling statistically for the level of crime and numbers convicted , an increase in the level of unemployment led , on average , to an increase in the numbers incarcerated . |
| 6 | This attractive young Woodbrook player , three down on the 13th , seemed to have a superb match against Eavan Higgins all wrapped up after jumping ahead for the first time on the 17th , but lost her ‘ thinking cap ’ completely down the last . |
| 7 | In 1911 , after playing professionally for the Southern League side Leyton , he was bought by Sunderland for £1,200 . |
| 8 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 9 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |
| 10 | The next night Geoffrey Appleyard went in alone , and after scouting round for the two agents he was to meet , he abandoned all caution , running up and down the beach shouting for them and waving his torch . |
| 11 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 12 | Concurrent reading reduced the rate of tapping more for the right than for the left finger . |
| 13 | We may define ‘ egoism ’ as the principle of acting only for the goals to which one inclines from one 's own viewpoint , and suggest two directions from which it might be approached . |
| 14 | Instead of dressing warmly for the elements , the bikers end up at the summit of popular hills dressed like Paul Weller in a Style Council video . |
| 15 | For many people it is a matter of looking around for the car they want and then frantically trying to arrange the finance , whilst the ‘ offer ’ still holds . |
| 16 | Someone must have done some extensive informing , because MacLane picked Susan and me out of the crowd without even the pretence of looking around for the usual suspects . |
| 17 | Jack fell quickly into the routine of looking out for the absurdities in his father 's speech to put into a P'dayta-Pie for Warnie ; but he had no heart for it . |
| 18 | So , instead of splashing out for the big one , we 've got a number of gorgeous jewels to give away . |
| 19 | Conflicting reports on Oct. 23 suggested , however , that Schiphol air traffic controllers had in fact erred in advising the pilot to circle Amsterdam instead of heading directly for the airport before making an emergency landing . |
| 20 | There also lay embedded in the system the inequality of paying not for the job but for the qualifications : degrees received a year 's extra increment and as a result earnings differentials rose . |
| 21 | So , instead of going straight for the big one , we decided to build up our acclimatisation by first visiting some of Kenya 's other mountains . |
| 22 | Philip Larkin , a life-long bachelor , memorialised that dilemma in ‘ Vers de société ’ ( 1971 ) , a short poem where the conclusion , though finely balanced , is only marginally in favour of going out for the evening . |
| 23 | Eric Cantona 's 85th minute goal was far too little and unfortunately far too late to save Howard Wilkinson 's men suffering the agony of going out for the second time in the space of five weeks . |
| 24 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 25 | A Goebbels article in Das Reich at the beginning of March , in which he had emphasized ‘ the great honour of the victims and of holding out for the new Europe ’ , for which it was worthwhile ‘ fighting to the last man in order to go down in history ’ , met with heavy criticism . |
| 26 | Even after they moved , and that 's ten years ago now , she would make a point of coming up for the children 's party , at Christmas . ’ |
| 27 | … she jumps out of the car and runs ; instead of running efficiently for the fortress like the others , she ‘ ran not looking where she was going ’ and consequently tripped and fell . |
| 28 | Planning policies tend to run behind developments and trends , and all too often the planning machine has given the impression of existing more for the benefit of those who run it ( professionals and politicians ) than those who are served by it . |
| 29 | or if they were going to the university they would n't of gone there for the interview |
| 30 | This is loss of hearing mainly for the high-pitched sounds ; sometimes the low-pitched sounds are little affected . |