Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [pron] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 2 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 3 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 4 | Mr Annal wrote , too , to the Education Department , to discover for himself whether the children 's teachers had ever been consulted . |
| 5 | ( 1986 ) and Morgan Klein ( 1985 ) describe convincingly the conflict which young people in residential care experience between longing for their parents to provide for them and the growing realisation that this may only ever be partial . |
| 6 | ‘ After all , ’ he continued , ‘ it 's totally pointless your coming to work for me if the designs you produce do n't suit my needs . ’ |
| 7 | People on legal aid will only be able to get the most inexperienced lawyers to work for them if a plan to set fixed hourly rates goes ahead , the Law Society warns . |
| 8 | so let it come to pass for you and the manservant were yield so that particular was all about faith , so |
| 9 | Yeah please Jack cos er I er that 's been enough for me to open for myself and the big one 's too big . |
| 10 | Someone was always dragged in to delegate for her if the outside world called . |
| 11 | Motorists have to calculate for themselves whether the concern is worth it . |
| 12 | Cricketers were no longer even financially privileged workers and there was no representative body to fight for them until the Cricketers ' Association was formed in 1968 . |
| 13 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 14 | There was sufficient reference to the factual basis of the comment — namely the mass-circulation Kemsley newspapers — to enable readers to judge for themselves whether the comment was reasonable . |
| 15 | The developer asked for a set of QA listings to assess for himself if the person assigned to QA would approve the package . |
| 16 | Many and varied reasons have been put forward for this basic element of practice , but they can be summarized under three headings : ideological reasons ( the right of a person to decide for himself or the recognition of this as an existential reality ) , educational and developmental reasons ( participation as part of human growth and development , for the individual , the family , the group , the organization or the community ) , and political reasons ( participation as a means to enfranchisement and empowerment , an antidote to alienation ) ( Ross , 1960 ; Bernstein , 1960 ; Katan , 1980 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; Rothman , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Fortunately , Karajan 's career is so well documented , officially and unofficially , on gramophone recordings , it is possible to check for oneself whether the performances tally with some of the more outlandish descriptions we have of them . |
| 18 | Some puppets are simple enough for the children to improvise for themselves once the teacher has introduced the idea . |
| 19 | You may have time to prepare for it while the patient is in hospital , but the reality is still likely to hit you hard when he comes home . |
| 20 | her questions had been more curious than tender and even when she had touched his cheek it was to prove for herself that no bruising remained . |
| 21 | The logic of an overall national agreement could almost be left to speak for itself though the conciliation board campaign itself was not formally abandoned until the outbreak of war in August 1914 , when the union immediately declared a truce in all its disputes with the Federation . |
| 22 | Have our little bit of fun then throw daddy out to fend for himself when the kiddiewinks come along . |