Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 2 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
| 3 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
| 4 | If they want to go for a longer period , a key worker would go out with them . ’ |
| 5 | Heinzer , the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team , exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly — ‘ I want to go for the big wins ’ — won the first race . |
| 6 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 7 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 8 | ( Incidentally never forget to plan for the practical needs of the press when you 're drawing up your arrangements . |
| 9 | I 'm not waiting , bother waiting for the desired |
| 10 | But if you want to play for a good cause and strap on your box in the company of famous faces , challenge The Lord 's Taverners to a match . |
| 11 | Hawkwind opt for the lone nutter theory … |
| 12 | If the members of a section want to vote for a full-time branch secretary , there was a member of that section , who 's been a full time branch secretary for longer than eighteen months , what right has anyone got to say they ca n't ? |
| 13 | I do n't want a complacent little doll that I can manipulate , ’ he said strangely , ‘ I want to fight for every damned caress — and I think I 'm going insane . |
| 14 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |
| 15 | Jane Moss said yesterday that the double heartbreak of her daughter 's death and the murder of her own mum 11 years ago made her want to care for the needy . |
| 16 | Have you got two tens you want to change for a twenty Paul ? |
| 17 | In this sense the privileges and goods that pupils can ‘ purchase ’ with the points they earn provide for an effective degree of control . |
| 18 | We understand that the two councils hope to apply for the necessary Order on the 28th of May . |
| 19 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 20 | You therefore get an increasing tangle of bureaucratic instructions which seek to legislate for an endless series of unlikely events which have occurred at some time in the organization 's past . |
| 21 | To see this , imagine repeating for a second country the process just described for the first . |
| 22 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 23 | Therefore , they tend to look for a certain ‘ type ’ . |
| 24 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 25 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 26 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 27 | The active Paul Mitchell Systems team campaigning for a better world |
| 28 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 29 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | You sound poised for a pleasant Christmas , which is nice . |