Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the winter of 1940–41 a number of public figures contacted by the left-of-centre owner of Picture Post , Edward Hulton , agreed to work together for greater efficiency , vigour and democracy in the prosecution of the war . |
| 2 | She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption . |
| 3 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 4 | However , Mrs Thompson vowed to fight on for other landlords even if time ran out for she and her husband . |
| 5 | ALLY McCOIST last night declared himself fit for tomorrow 's European Cup match against CSKA Moscow — and vowed to make up for lost time . |
| 6 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 7 | When , in the 18th century , Hull became a prosperous port , rich merchants began to look westwards for clean Wolds air and scenic views . |
| 8 | During the 1950s , however , employers began to press successfully for coordinated , central wage bargaining , which has continued subsequently . |
| 9 | You know them that we got to send off for that , I got head bag and you got that ? |
| 10 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 11 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 12 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 13 | Officials warned to look out for banned runner |
| 14 | Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour . |
| 15 | Other members of the group had differing objectives and decided to drop out for various reasons , ’ the source said . |
| 16 | Hari left the boy while she went to search upstairs for one of her father 's night-shirts . |
| 17 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 18 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 19 | You had to go ashore for that . |
| 20 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 21 | And er the other daughter , when we lived up , she had to go there for six er , and I used to ge had to get up , and bring her right down the lane , and then I 'd got to walk back , up that lane meself , you see ? |
| 22 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 23 | There were no photocopying machines in those days so from the day the collection was shown the sketchers had to work frantically for two or three weeks afterwards from about eight to midnight drawing models for all the clients . |
| 24 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 25 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 26 | He continued to drink quietly for another hour before going in to dinner . |
| 27 | Cranmer continued to play infrequently for three years after giving up the captaincy , and deeply regrets the passing of the amateur in today 's game . |
| 28 | Hobhouse began keeping a diary during his round-the-world honeymoon in 1893 and continued to do so for five years . |
| 29 | When he died in 1800 , Mrs. Smith took over her husband 's duties and continued to do so for several years , to the satisfaction of the directors . |
| 30 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |