Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theorists feel compelled to do so for two reasons . |
| 2 | My own plans are somewhat uncertain because of the move , but I do plan to get away for a short break some time towards the end of the month , and I will keep you informed . |
| 3 | The one that does take reflection , but I think you 've got to aim really for that wire . |
| 4 | We 've got to go now for daddy . |
| 5 | But no matter ’ — his voice rose now — ‘ you 've got to go there for a time , anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’ |
| 7 | As Ian said , ‘ After one robbery , you 've got to prepare immediately for the next . ’ |
| 8 | Oh here , might as well , I wonder if nanny saw it oh it 's one of these where you 've got to send away for it |
| 9 | If they 've had to stay indoors for a wet break they 'll want to do something physically very active . |
| 10 | However , perhaps even more significantly , certainly for the junior players , is the opportunity they have earned to go forward for a personal screening at Bradnam 's unique Herts-based Dewhurst Tennis Academy , the operation which has firmly set about the task of uncovering a future British Wimbledon champion . |
| 11 | People have expected to pay later for much of what they have bought , seeing this as ‘ bills ’ rather than as debts . |
| 12 | In practice , however , these ‘ big ’ nations , especially since the 1960s , have had to settle more for a de facto goal of minimizing imports ( mainly from the USA and Japan ) and attempting to achieve a balance of imports and exports on electronics and communications trade . |
| 13 | TENANTS living in council owned sheltered accommodation could be allowed to keep their pets without having to apply for permission on an annual basis.Uttlesford District Council has allowed tenants to keep a pet dog or cat , but until now only on a temporary basis.For the past two years , tenants have had to apply annually for permission to keep a pet under the council 's rules . |
| 14 | Licence revenue has proved unreliable as the majority of listeners do not bother to purchase a licence , and radio stations have had to look elsewhere for funds . |
| 15 | A good negotiator can make a customer feel satisfied after they have had to work hard for a small discount . |
| 16 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
| 17 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 18 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 19 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |
| 20 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 21 | The first criticism is that banks in the UK have failed to provide adequately for the needs of industry . |