Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound .
2 If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’
3 Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions .
4 In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame .
5 In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team .
6 After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed .
7 In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " .
8 If only the most dependent and disturbed patients are admitted to hospital care , then local authority care will need to provide for a wide range of elderly people including many with dementia , and some with milder behaviour problems .
9 They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence .
10 You should n't even consider buying for the new season until you 've consulted our survey , compiled by Steven Seaton .
11 He will not normally seek to account for the mental processes involved in any language-user 's production of those sentences , nor to describe the physical or social contexts in which those sentences occur .
12 We would need to allow for the following expenses :
13 Having marked the ripstop , stop to work out how much extra you will need to allow for the leading edge pocket , or any hems , either on unsupported edges or where joining to another panel .
14 To maintain continuity , the paper suggests that firms should establish transitional arrangements for the handover : these could include arranging for the new partner to work on the audit team beforehand , and ensuring that other senior staff do not change in the same year .
15 However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections .
16 It is n't difficult to calculate how long we should reasonably expect to wait for the random computer ( or baby or monkey ) to type METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL .
17 Students who do well in the three years of the MA(General) may choose to proceed for a further year to obtain the MA ( General Honours ) .
18 Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling .
19 If the expected return rises to 15 per cent what would they expect to pay for the above shares ?
20 If investors require an expected return of 8 per cent p.a. , what prices would they expect to pay for the following :
21 I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft .
22 At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council .
23 After all , how would Ms Hamer like to work for an empty pay packet , day in and day out , like so many housewives do ?
24 A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness .
25 My sights were wide-ranging " I 'd like to work for the Daily Mirror or the Telegraph , " I informed my friends , as I sank a pint in the way I 'd seen the big-boys do at the time of the by-election .
26 He 's a Yorkshireman through and through — and he 's already told us he would like to play for the Northern Division .
27 I would n't , I would n't mind going for a few days
28 I understand that you are holding the PAL masters for both parts , which we would like to use for the first run of this title , to get a better quality duplication .
29 What I 'd like to do for the next twenty minutes of the er of the seminar is talk about client server today .
30 It means , do n't keep wishing for the next day , or the next week , or month , or year , or your life goes too fast .
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