Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 2 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 3 | Anyway , I 've finished here for the present . ’ |
| 4 | I 've worked only for the common good , humbly trying to advance knowledge … ’ |
| 5 | We 've put in for the club entry and we 're just waiting to hear , you know , if we 've been lucky or not . |
| 6 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 7 | I 've radioed in for the Social Services , they 'll find them some alternative accommodation . |
| 8 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 9 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 10 | But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time . |
| 11 | Many of Britain 's leading composers have written especially for the ensemble , including the University 's own lecturers in composition , John Joubert , John Casken and Jonty Harrison . |
| 12 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 13 | Green continues : ‘ Strangers have done more for the beauty of Grasmere by their forbearance in felling native trees than injury by the introduction of exotics . ’ |
| 14 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 15 | ANDES 21 de junio ( Asociacion Nacional de Educadores Salvadorenos ) is a founder member of the BPR and openly expresses its support for the FDR-FMLN , while both the state and the Catholic universities have been consistent critics of the lack of democratic and civil liberties and have argued cogently for the need for social and economic reforms . |
| 16 | There are a number of reasons why many socialists have argued strongly for the replacement of market mechanisms by state planning . |
| 17 | At home , high street sales have risen modestly for the second month running . |
| 18 | The occasion is the 25th birthday of the U-K owners club and around half of its 1,300 active members have turned up for the celebrations at Silverstone . |
| 19 | Other players who have turned out for the Nomads this season include the likes of Peter Dixon and Brian and Harry Patrick . |
| 20 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 21 | According to CUP , the trade in the UK and Ireland has been ‘ magnificently supportive ’ , with almost 200 window displays of the Oxford Cambridge Book Race design , and entries have flooded in for the competition to win a holiday in Pompeii . |
| 22 | The following description of the scientific method by a twentieth-century economist conforms closely to the naive inductivist account of science as I have described it , and indicates that it is not a position that I have invented solely for the purpose of criticizing it . |
| 23 | THE PARENTS of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time about their tragedy and their new hopes for the birth of another child . |
| 24 | THE parents of toddler James Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time since their son 's tragic death in February . |
| 25 | He should be listening to parents in his constituency who have opted overwhelmingly for the CTC , with more than 500 applications for 248 places last year and with 660 applications for next year . |
| 26 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |
| 27 | Since then , for the thirteen years since Kapuscinski 's departure , things have gone badly for the Angolans , and they are still suffering terribly . |
| 28 | In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 29 | In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 30 | It seems to me that when one looks at the brief findings and reasons of the justices given at the conclusion of the hearing , or even if one were to look at the more elaborate reasons which they have compiled subsequently for the purpose of his appeal , then their decision was plainly wrong . |