Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 2 | He did , however , fall heavily for the young woman who is now his wife . |
| 3 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 5 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 6 | If you do he will head straight for the nearest snag and you will be extremely fortunate to pull him out again . |
| 7 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 8 | I mean , I 've been analyzing every dream I can remember now for the last twenty one years and er I think I 've got rather good at dream interpretation I must admit . |
| 9 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 10 | The prosecution 's success rate does not augur well for the two trials which will really test the quality of Boesky 's information and the deal that he pulled off with government lawyers . |
| 11 | The party 's anger and resentment at the limited nature of government action did not augur well for the smooth functioning of the Russian Parliament . |
| 12 | May we search consistently for the best in other people . |
| 13 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
| 14 | And heavens knows , once launched it 's all too hard to turn back and look again for the missed trace . |
| 15 | Only a truly successful 24-hour electronic trading system , like Globex , could compete directly for the European derivative markets . |
| 16 | The numbers are in green for par and above , for ‘ go ’ as in you might as well go home , and red for below par , for ‘ stop ’ as in you can stop here for the last two rounds . |
| 17 | And soon we shall all meet again for the last time . |
| 18 | The internal Labour pressure group that will meet officially for the first time in Stirling aims to unite and organise women from both wings of the party as well as from the constituencies and trades unions . |
| 19 | A party spokeswoman , Lourdes Ortiz , remarked : ‘ It does n't seem possible , but the workers may vote again for the Socialist machine . ’ |
| 20 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |
| 21 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 22 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 23 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 24 | Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price . |
| 25 | While there are instances of seemingly unnecessarily high pricing , some at least probably arise more from inefficiencies than from exploitation — which of course does not bode well for the long-term survival of those establishments . |
| 26 | An important product , Retardmac , is coming under increasing pressure due to the Government 's desire for permanent re-instatement of roads after patching and this does not bode well for the long-term future of the product . |
| 27 | We 'll go right for the awkward ones and put an X and a Y in as well . |
| 28 | It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months , |
| 29 | They also had previous experience , so we hoped all would go well for the second run . |
| 30 | But we 're not content in in the government to let it rest there for the poorest countries , the very poorest countries , even more help is urgently needed . |