Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 2 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 3 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 4 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 5 | And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release . |
| 6 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 7 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 8 | Imagine — with Air Miles you do n't have to wait for your annual summer holidays to come around . |
| 9 | On the other , we have still to wait for our final adoption at the Second Coming ( Rom. 8:23 ) . |
| 10 | Deng Xiaoping managed to stay alive and did not wish to wait for his own death before being given any credit . |
| 11 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 12 | In the first place , we all need to mourn for our own sins and for the negative contribution we bring into the world . |
| 13 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 14 | You 're ready to go for your first sail . |
| 15 | So an urgent appeal is being launched in Britain and in other countries asking people to search for their old slide-rules in attics , in schools and in lab store rooms . |
| 16 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 17 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 18 | The rest of the class then use these pictures as evidence , discussing the implications of what they are shown in order to plan for their next journey back in time . |
| 19 | ‘ I had to sell my share in Moffat Engineering , which lost me my chance to drive for them that year … ’ |
| 20 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 21 | Parents can be greatly helped if they have received early information and guidance on the needs of children with no sight or defective vision , and in addition the chance to see for themselves educational provision as well as receiving information about potential placements . |
| 22 | You might also use it to reduce your overdraft , to achieve discounts for early payment or simply to enjoy for your personal requirements . |
| 23 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 24 | I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters . |
| 25 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 26 | Any other information that you wish to include for your own reference such as tension dial settings , type , colour and brand of yarns for example , can also be entered on the TENSIONS screen . |
| 27 | The difficulty for the thieves was not to gain possession of the animal , but to arrange for its profitable disposal . |
| 28 | If … if , though , she does n't let you stay with them , then Mother will try to arrange for you some place else . |
| 29 | Just as the Central Swiss communities around the Vierwaldstattersee had to struggle for their independent rights against the Austrian Hapsburgs , their confederates to the west of Bern had to confront the might of the Burgundian realm . |
| 30 | ‘ If I tell — they will kill Liam and point out that he 's had to suffer for my stubborn principles . |