Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 2 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 3 | In one more smooth movement his own shirt was gone , and as she looked at him her naked skin seemed to cry out for the touch of his . |
| 4 | Stirling 's party decided to lie up for the day and , leaving the road , headed into some low hills covered with scrubby bushes . |
| 5 | The two met at a rally and decided to team up for the Charrington RAC . |
| 6 | In a moment , the monster rose , lurching slightly , and started to head back for the dark tower . |
| 7 | The large crowd that crammed into the new men 's toilets at COLDALE TROJANS ground last month were disappointed that guests of honour , the Nolan Sisters , failed to turn up for the opening . |
| 8 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 9 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 10 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 11 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 12 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 13 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 14 | But the journey took longer than they planned , because they had to watch out for the evil troll who lurked under the bridge . |
| 15 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 16 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 17 | They looked into one another 's eyes , and kissed with a great tenderness , as though they had to make up for the anger last time . |
| 18 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 19 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |
| 20 | So they both agreed to show off for the evening . |
| 21 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |