Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |
| 2 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 3 | Da says he 's going to come down for tea with — ’ |
| 4 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 5 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 6 | This is the second unimpeachable Rembrandt painting to come up for sale in London this season , the first having been his ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ . |
| 7 | Thirdly , the document will provide employees with the opportunity to come forward for help in the knowledge that they will be positively supported with the advice and necessary assistance , in order to overcome their problem and maintain their job security . |
| 8 | COSI is thought to be part of a much broader technology effort now coming together that will likely involve IBM too in some way , though no-one we spoke to was prepared to elaborate further for fear of upsetting delicate negotiations . |
| 9 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 10 | Some residents we spoke to were frightened to talk publicly for fear of reprisals . |
| 11 | I was able to go home for Christmas with my new friends . |
| 12 | Smith was the latest to go off for examination of foot bruising , Nick Knight substituting briefly in the field . |
| 13 | Some think that the universities would do well to look outwards for reassurance about their research role : in particular to the Max Planck Institutes , which , while universally praised as centres of excellence , have structural problems of their own . |
| 14 | Whatever the reason we have to look elsewhere for evidence of the origins of the invertebrates . |
| 15 | Well you can either keep putting up with it or tell others that they have to look elsewhere for help with their work or children — it 's really up to you . |
| 16 | Timothy 's interest in decorative schemes drew him to look carefully for evidence of the old painted ornament , and he found plenty . |
| 17 | that 's right , yes you have to tell them what to look out for kind of thing |
| 18 | For example , your GP should have greater flexibility to look around for treatment in hospitals which offer the shortest waiting times . |
| 19 | I 'm training the red-tailed buzzard as a hunting bird , though , and I 've found it sometimes prefers to look around for food for itself , rather than just come to my lure . |
| 20 | Henry 's life-long role had been the Kingship of England , it was for his sons to look abroad for glory in battle . |
| 21 | They believe that certain extremist Christian movements encourage workers in the social services to look everywhere for evidence of satanism . |
| 22 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 23 | In early life he was employed by Mr R S Woulfe , a Methodist merchant in household and Mr Donovan was converted and had to leave home for employment in the North of Ireland . |
| 24 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 25 | Now aged 73 , Mr Mitterrand is unlikely to run again for president in 1995 . |
| 26 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 27 | Dyson swung left into a main road , looking over his shoulder to watch out for traffic from the right , and drove over the edge of the kerb . |
| 28 | To labour there for Room for next Year 's Corn . |
| 29 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
| 30 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |