Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will feature celebrities and members of the public who dare to strip for the cameras . |
| 2 | The Naked Chat Show , to screen after midnight , will feature celebrities and members of the public who dare to strip for the cameras . |
| 3 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 4 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 5 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 8 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 9 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 10 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 11 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 12 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 13 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 14 | She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner . |
| 15 | Headley used to write for The Voice , Britain 's leading black newspaper . |
| 16 | We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs . |
| 17 | Well m mother used to clean for the church clean |
| 18 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 19 | The local bands used to play for the morning processions , in the afternoon they played selections at the sports and in the evening they would compete among themselves . |
| 20 | I used to play for the Darlington Deanery Choir one afternoon a week . |
| 21 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 22 | ‘ He used to be a very useful runner in his younger days , ’ Joe explained , ‘ used to run for the Gloucester Harriers so they say . |
| 23 | And so he represses the part of himself which used to cry for the moon . |
| 24 | To investigate system development teams as social units and to provide a re-appraisal of the predominant organisational models used to account for the management of system development teams . |
| 25 | There are four principal theories used to account for the failure of the extreme right in Britain . |
| 26 | Some of the traditional theories used to account for the failure of the extreme right in Great Britain do have something to say about the reasons for this . |
| 27 | God is no divine monster whose existence can be sounded out by the aerial equivalent of the sophisticated underwater sonar equipment used to test for the presence of Nessie . |
| 28 | A technique used to test for the autonomy of cell development is to see what happens to cells if their neighbours are killed-off by a fine laser beam . |
| 29 | He himself was so influenced by Luther that he used to pray for the abolition of the Pope 's authority in England . |
| 30 | We used to tie her in there and get the cubs out then do you see , we used to dig for the cubs . |