Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 2 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 3 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 4 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 5 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 6 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 7 | Information derived from the national health service internal market on general practitioner and patient preferences and on comparative costs will help the service to plan sensibly for the future , in London as elsewhere . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it may be prudent to provide expressly for the payment of rent where , for example , the property remains empty while the tenant is seeking to assign his lease . |
| 9 | The stylistic aplomb of the article may have us accepting the analogous links made between cockfighting and the totality of Balinese society without realising that these links are too fragmentary and partial to stand properly for the whole . |
| 10 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 11 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 12 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts . |
| 13 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts |
| 14 | The local education authority , and participating employers , in planning to work together for the benefit of young people , will need , early on , to clarify their modus operandi . |
| 15 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |
| 16 | Accompanied by two of his closest advisers , foermer Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Sanya Dharmasakdi , he appealed to them to work together for the sake of the people and the economy . |
| 17 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 18 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you like to come home for a drink ? |
| 20 | Ideally , of course , there should be the choice , especially for islanders having to work on the mainland who want to come home for the weekend . |
| 21 | Staffing standards therefore exceed the 4/73 baseline by a fifth and that should be welcomed so far as it is an attempt to provide favourably for a group in need . |
| 22 | Enlightened self-interest suggests that schools should press their LEA to fund special needs as generously as possible , so that they in turn can advertise their ability to provide appropriately for every pupil . |
| 23 | The only way to write well for an instrument and exploit its full potentials is to know it intimately well . |
| 24 | You may think it is a rum thing that a chap like Tim should pay an arm and a leg to come here for a year and then teach us a thing or two but then I am perfectly happy to admit that we do n't know everything . |
| 25 | ‘ There must have been a reason to come here for a day . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 27 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
| 28 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 29 | Finely spread bait means they have to work hard for a meal and therefore remain in the swim for the maximum length of time . |
| 30 | They point out , for example , that Japanese companies in particular have for some time been making strenuous efforts to recruit labour which is not so much cheap but flexible and prepared to work hard for the company in question . |