Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ironic , I thought , that for the expedition for Gareth and Coconut I 'd deliberately chosen to aim for a spot on the map that looked as remote from any road as possible . |
| 2 | They was only , they 'd either got to pay for accommodation at a lodging house or go to the workhouse , they called them then , which is the casual ward , and at the casual ward they were required to bath on admission , which a lot of them did n't like , they were compelled to do certain work . |
| 3 | Switching between one-day and five-day mode was unpopular with the players , and the new showbiz-style razzmatazz that accompanied the games seemed specifically designed to cater for the drunken yobbos who turned up by the cartload . |
| 4 | But , although she smiled briefly at Folly in a friendly enough way , she seemed too distracted to wait for an answer , and started to usher them inside . |
| 5 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 6 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 7 | There had already been one heated exchange between herself and the school managers , when Outram had pointedly refused to apologize for introducing controversial subjects . |
| 8 | Others , such as Eric Bremner , a 28-year-old physics teacher , had only decided to apply for water shares on the spur of the moment . |
| 9 | But the Prime Minister 's account of his own conversation at the palace earlier that morning reveals that the King had already determined to try for a National Government headed by MacDonald . |
| 10 | A hangover from Lyn 's childhood , a mother who cleaned at Chesney Hall , a father at Cartwright-Cageby 's was to feel respect that had once amounted to awe for the professional man . |
| 11 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 12 | Nirex had originally planned to apply for planning permission for the repository--strongly opposed by environmental organizations--this year , with 2005 as the target date for its opening . |
| 13 | ‘ I hoped that she had really decided to go for Giles Hawick instead . ’ |
| 14 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 15 | Thompson v. Robinson was distinguished also in Lazenby Garages v. Wright ( 1976 C.A. ) where Mr. Wright refused to accept a second-hand car which he had previously agreed to buy for £1,670 from a car dealer . |
| 16 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 17 | Or no , she thought , no — for that last , golden day at the girls ' preparatory school , which had coincided with her fifty-first birthday , that had been a joy such as she had never dared to hope for , a once-in-a-lifetime joy . |
| 18 | She was spoiled , he was right , and she had never had to fight for anything in her life before . |
| 19 | If she stayed indoors much longer , Murphy would have taken over her tasks and have filled the old beer crates they were to use as laying boxes with straw , and be collecting the scraps from the kitchen , that Dora had reluctantly promised to keep for her . |