Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’ |
| 2 | Sheffield Wednesday recognised his talent and he signed a contract to play for it . |
| 3 | She was partly at a loss to account for her fear of the man , which was surely irrational . |
| 4 | And sometimes that means sending a drawing out getting a contractor to price for it rather than him doing it , er using standard books and goodness knows else like Sponds . |
| 5 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 6 | And only eight per cent of those that did had engaged a lawyer to speak for them ‘ even though , where defendants are represented , they are more likely to receive a favourable outcome . ’ |
| 7 | Another said : ‘ How could any mother leave a child to fend for itself ? |
| 8 | ‘ I had n't realised that I needed to be a hypochondriac to qualify for your — affections . ’ |
| 9 | By the time Penry Vaughan came downstairs again she was deep in the adventures of a lady who had decided to dress as a boy to search for her lost crusading husband . |
| 10 | If you move to the US without a prearranged position , at least ensure that you have a place to stay for your first few months . |
| 11 | It 's a joy to work for him ; as a director he 's intense , but respectful . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't possess a mansion with a swimming-pool , a Rolls in the garage , and a business to pay for it all , ’ he admitted in a recent biography . |
| 13 | ’ People have a right to choose for themselves . ’ |
| 14 | If you live with a ‘ grown-up ’ child or children , you have a right to claim for yourself ; but if you are not a separate householder , your benefit will be at a lower rate . |
| 15 | Or suppose , again , that your neighbour has agreed with you that he will not open a public house or carry on a school of music next door , and does and threatens to continue doing one or the other ; or that you have a right to light for your windows , and he threatens to erect a building within three feet of them . |
| 16 | Now the community care legislation says that carers now have a right to ask for their needs to be assessed , I think that 's very important ! |
| 17 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |
| 18 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 19 | If you want to appoint a proxy to vote for you he or she must be : |
| 20 | Towards the end of the 11th century Gundulph , Bishop of Rochester , looking for a site to build for himself and his successors a manor house , chose a spot close by the river at Halling . |
| 21 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | But there was a price to pay for their pleasures . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , there is a price to pay for everything and , under this Government , that price is measured by what we call the poll tax and will soon no doubt be measured by the council tax . |
| 25 | There 's a price to pay for everything . |
| 26 | After another good quarter , Ken ‘ Godfather ’ Burkinshaw , Area Manager for Pest Control North East instructed his hit man Barry White to organise a day to remember for his sales team . |
| 27 | He said that he was convinced that the country did not want change , and was calling the referendum to expose the " lies " spread by " dissidents " about the level of support for multiparty politics ; it would , he said , give " people a chance to vote for me and my party … and to reject the introduction of other political parties " . |
| 28 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
| 29 | Local audiences could have a chance to decide for themselves later this year , with the band hopeful of slotting Irish dates into their itinerary . |
| 30 | CIBD 's team of Relationship Managers had a chance to hear for themselves how their role fits in with the future for the Royal Bank when they were addressed by Chief Executive George Mathewson in February . |