Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Please can you look into this and arrange for the job to be finished as soon as possible .
2 Ooh I 'll carry on watching this and go for a bloody shower !
3 Avoid these and go for the grilled items — possibles are poussins or chicken breast , game such as pheasant , partridge or guinea fowl , or , if you do n't have ethical qualms , lean veal .
4 In recession , there is little but hope for the future that a party in Government can offer industry .
5 Liam just decided to ignore it all and hope for the best .
6 As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host .
7 By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself .
8 It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass .
9 In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’
10 PACHE LEAVES THOSE THAT HOPE FOR A HAPPY OUTCOME TO BULL 's TRAVAILS WITH LITTLE TO CHEER
11 Some of the holidays that cater for the younger element may still be slanted towards pairing people off , but those that cater for the older age groups are not .
12 As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance .
13 The computer can check for towns that are missed off signs , those that appear for no good reason or appear only intermittently , to the great confusion of amateur navigators .
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