Example sentences of "for [pron] [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some signal had obviously been given , though Alexandra had not seen it , and now it was plainly time for everyone to turn and talk to their other neighbour . |
| 2 | The future and the past of the world was gathered on an island for everyone to see and speculate with awe . |
| 3 | Their background makes it easy for them to appreciate and exploit the latest advances in active documents , and to see how document standards and document handling fit into the wider computing scene . |
| 4 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 5 | God has brought them to himself , and in the shed blood has provided a way for them to live and walk with him . |
| 6 | I waited behind the cart for them to stop and let me pass . |
| 7 | In the final analysis , students and teachers do not have a grasp of linguistic knowledge which is adequate enough for them to evaluate and make judgments about the methods/approaches/techniques which they are encouraged to adopt . |
| 8 | It could be very embarrassing for them to arrive and find you already there . " |
| 9 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 10 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 11 | One is for the group and the other is for them to sign and send back . |
| 12 | So much so that several social services departments in the United Kingdom are now issuing their elderly and disabled meals-on-wheels customers with small freezers and a week 's supply of meals for them to store and heat up themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , and I hope you 're going to approve , because I 've made arrangements for them to come and stay here . |
| 14 | So far as the availability of evidence before the justices , again , I say little because of the course I am going to take but there clearly was evidence for them to consider and assess . |
| 15 | It is equally important for them to read and hear and speak the great literature of the past . |
| 16 | One reason could be because all around them are utterly characterless , uniform , boring , and unmemorable buildings — nothing for them to stand and stare at , to wonder at and dream of — as there was in the heyday of the great stations . |
| 17 | The number and density of flying bodies make it almost impossible for them to select and catch a particular individual . |
| 18 | Until very recently , the English a cappella ensembles involved in this work have had almost no competition and they are therefore ready to benefit from any new sounds or new musical ideas that choirs and vocal consorts in other countries can produce for them to hear and admire . |
| 19 | Being able to find out for oneself has a number of contributory sub-skills attached to it , and in planning resource-based programmes for our classes we must take into account such sub-skills so that we can give the chance for them to develop and mature . |
| 20 | However , it might be possible for me to detect and summon the ship if I was taken above the atmosphere . |
| 21 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 22 | Can you recommend the best one for me to choose and offer any cultural instructions ? |
| 23 | ‘ The time has now come for me to act and sort out some of the players . |
| 24 | There is no need for me to live and die in this little world , with my only view a view out of the same window , at the same spruce-trees , the view from my bed . |
| 25 | It 's been good for me to sweat and toil — like a long therapy session ; honest manual work puts a lot of things in perspective . |
| 26 | ‘ It 'll be time for me to go and collect Maria soon — ‘ |
| 27 | I hated the place when I lived there and yet today I had the odd sort of feeling that the house was just waiting for me to go and live in it again . ’ |
| 28 | Spotting me , she screamed for me to go and get Jean-Claude . |
| 29 | The half-hour eventually crawled round , then it was time for me to go and get ready . |
| 30 | It seems ridiculous for me to try and offer excuses why we were so comprehensively beaten , but the fact that we were well below full strength certainly gave Alborne a ten-goal advantage . |