Example sentences of "for [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , finally , a new order seems to be emerging , for which a big debt of gratitude is owed to Donovan Razor Ruddock and Britain 's Lennox Lewis for daring to have a face off for the chance to get a title shot . |
| 2 | Technicians at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon walked out when a colleague was sacked for refusing to use a machine that his union had banned . |
| 3 | Twenty staff walked out yesterday when a colleague was suspended for refusing to use a sorting machine in Bristol . |
| 4 | In Spain , the party that might hold the balance of power after the general election on June 6th , the Communist-dominated United Left , has reservations about the treaty , though it has dressed them up as criticism of the government for refusing to call a referendum on it . |
| 5 | He also referred to the case of the three railwaymen , dismissed for refusing to join a trade union , who had succeeded before the Court of Human Rights and he reached the conclusion that the relevant article of the Convention was ‘ part of the law of England or at any rate the same as the law of England ’ . |
| 6 | UMPIRE Steve Bucknor came under fire yesterday for refusing to view a TV replay in a run-out incident which could have a bearing on the second Test between South Africa and India . |
| 7 | On July 31 the High Court fined Channel Four and Box Productions ( an independent programme maker ) £75,000 for refusing to name a source in a controversial television documentary on Northern Ireland broadcast in October 1991 . |
| 8 | A woman with cancer has been summoned to court for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of just over fourteen pounds . |
| 9 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 10 | Mr Robert Cole , a CND vice-chairman , was jailed for 14 days at Blaenau Ffestiniog , Gwynned , for refusing to pay a £150 fine imposed after he chained himself to a container of nuclear waste last August .. |
| 11 | Technicians walked out nine days ago when Simon King was suspended for refusing to work a machine blacked by his union . |
| 12 | He also criticized Aziz for refusing to accept a letter reiterating the US position from Bush to Saddam Hussein . |
| 13 | Cleveland AntiFascist Association has congratulated mainstream candidates for refusing to share a platform with British National Party candidate Donald Clarke . |
| 14 | A RECEPTIONIST was sacked — for refusing to sign a pledge declaring she would not support her picketing son . |
| 15 | The development of pub retailing has shown a corrective instinct for seeking to set a purpose built business in the right location . |
| 16 | He was dressed like you , and — ’ I was anxious to express this politely ‘ — he had the same reason for wanting to borrow a file . ’ |
| 17 | Jane van Lennep examines the reasons for wanting to breed a foal and explains how to evaluate your mare . |
| 18 | De Niro does n't seem particularly keen to discuss his reasons for wanting to run a restaurant , and will only say that it 's been a vague dream of his for a while . |
| 19 | One anthropologist who has been noted for attempting to retain a balance between objectivist and subjectivist analysis is Pierre Bourdieu . |
| 20 | Billy Meredith , the ‘ Prince of Dribblers ’ and the club captain , was suspended for a season for attempting to offer a bribe to an Aston Villa player . |
| 21 | Candy , a travelling tinker , was arrested on 23 July for attempting to slash a man with a razor . |
| 22 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |
| 23 | She was to be ritually speared for having broken a taboo . |
| 24 | v. Chilton , the Court of Appeal held that a threat by A , a trading association , to put B , one of its members , on a ‘ stop list ’ ( which would prevent B from getting goods from the members of the association ) unless B paid a sum of money for having broken a rule of the association was not a tort . |
| 25 | I was dismayed that we had disturbed her and apologised for having made a noise . |
| 26 | To drive the archbishop into exile for having recognized a pope accepted by all Normandy would have been an act of political folly . |
| 27 | Kim responded by expressing his desire to improve relations with Japan and by suggesting that a " lenient decision " would be made in the case of two Japanese fishermen detained in North Korea since 1983 for having helped a North Korean defect to Japan . |
| 28 | It reflects moral regret for having violated a situation of trust , and it shows concern that someone might have been hurt . ’ |
| 29 | At Pontefract yesterday Isobel Brown , who said her last permanent address was Moscow , was committed for three months in the second division for having delivered a speech at Castleford on Wednesday likely to cause disaffection . |
| 30 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |