Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because I 'm hoping you 'll agree to pass on a message for me to Minter . |
| 2 | You used to come once a week for dinner |
| 3 | Sometimes we will arrange to meet once a week for five weeks to talk and pray . |
| 4 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 5 | SuperCalc 5.5 represents an important move towards a graphical user interface and this is very good news for every SuperCalc user who likes using a mouse — or who is prepared to try out a mouse for the extra shortcuts that make SuperCalc 5.5 easier to use than its predecessors . |
| 6 | After 20 minutes the officers accepted a glass of wine from their enforced hostess and one , until restrained by the other , even began to write out a receipt for what had been taken . |
| 7 | Once again there is n not necessarily er anybody to write out a cheque for one million pounds o or whatever . |
| 8 | You will need to work out a menu for yourself to follow , using the Stage I menus as a guide , but adding your own safe foods and drinks . |
| 9 | From this it is possible to work out a recipe for some common ailments . |
| 10 | The government set up a high-level council for alternative economics on Nov. 6 , under the chairmanship of Liberal Party leader Igor Merkulov , to work out a strategy for building a market economy , including measures to strengthen the currency coupon and , later , Ukraine 's new currency against the US dollar . |
| 11 | Europe 's leading seed banks and official research institutes have joined forces with the pressure group Genetic Resources Action International ( GRAIN ) to work out a strategy for preserving genetic diversity in crop plants . |
| 12 | Despite the apparent gentleness of the Glancy approach to the sensitivities of staff at Friern , when the members of the authority attempted to work out a process for implementing its recommendations , they ran into considerable difficulties . |
| 13 | Very often your teacher may ask you to come twice a week for two or three weeks and then once a week for a further period which will vary from pupil to pupil . |
| 14 | He , they were late to bed I 'd had them erm round at the shops and then er er Queensway , then the shopping centre to pick up a card for for Chris . |
| 15 | He went over to pick up a coffee for himself , then came back over and sat down . |
| 16 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 17 | England started in the team tournament with a 4–2 victory over Austria to open up a chance for bronze or silver medal . |
| 18 | In the afternoon session there was an equally irritable wrangle over a proposal to adopt a law on compliance with the constitution , and to set up a committee for the purpose . |
| 19 | In 1989 , Cardiff City Council invited the Guild to set up a showcase for their work , as part of its temporary arts programme for the Old Library . |
| 20 | This chapter seeks to set up a scheme for language teacher education , a pragmatics of pedagogy , which incorporates these conditions for establishing relevance and provides for the furtherance of proper and profitable relations between theory and practice . |
| 21 | He was kissing her again , but with urgency now , the way his lips moved over hers calculated to set up a craving for more . |
| 22 | Mr Arnold questioned why he had not tried harder to set up a system for receiving such information more swiftly . |
| 23 | The merger of the TSA with the AFBD is also rationalised in terms of the increasing linkages between the securities and futures markets and the desire for both markets to set up a system for trading futures and options on a Euroindex of stocks . |
| 24 | Now they 're planning to set up a sanctuary for exotic wild animals . |
| 25 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 26 | It aims to make more information about Gerson available , fund research projects , and eventually it hopes to set up a centre for people who want to try it , in combination with psychological counselling , according to Renee Henry . |
| 27 | It would be an exciting and worthwhile challenge , for instance , to set up a centre for medicine with Urdu or French where professionals could receive additional training and which would also could become the focus for expertise and research in that area . |
| 28 | In 1826 , when the members of the British Factory were worried by reports that a daily newspaper was about to be published in Funchal , they decided to set up a find for the protection of any British subject attacked by the newspaper . |
| 29 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 30 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |