Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 2 | The Immigration and Customs people at Ramsgate had been instructed to watch out for the Renault 18 but to keep a low profile and let it through . |
| 3 | Malcolm , who had been told to look out for him by Steve , was impressed . |
| 4 | Staff at the top stores have been told to look out for anyone trying to use the royal cards . |
| 5 | Dealers have been alerted to look out for 250 items snatched from an exclusive house in London 's Belgravia . |
| 6 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 7 | Britain 's docks and airports have been alerted to look out for the suspects . |
| 8 | The car , a Sierra , had been stolen on Thursday night from nearby Bilsdale Close and neighbouring forces have been alerted to look out for a stolen blue Ford Orion , registration number H814 FYM , which may also have been used in connection with the incident . |
| 9 | For example , he stumbles into this howler on the question of social security as cash , rather than provision in kind : ‘ Social security benefits have been introduced to make up for the withdrawal of more general provision : examples in the UK are free prescriptions ( introduced because prescription charges were introduced ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 10 | Freud compares taboos with the obsessional prohibitions that some neurotics had been observed to set up for themselves , and sometimes for those around them , such as the frequent need to wash their own hands before performing a task . |
| 11 | Yet what really were the chances of seeing the very car you 'd been asked to look out for ? |
| 12 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 13 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 14 | He had spent the morning painting picturesque views and quaint scenes for his master , and had been allowed to knock off for a smoke . |
| 15 | She had already been allowed to stay on for two years beyond the age when she would normally have had to retire . |
| 16 | To be sure , its performance has not been notably worse than its main rivals ' — similarly sprawling groups such as Germany 's BASF , Hoechst and Bayer , Du Pont and Dow Chemical of the US , France 's state-owned Rhone-Poulenc and Italy 's state-owned EniChem , which has been allowed to bumble along for years without worrying too much about profits . |
| 17 | The officers had been warned to look out for a red Ford Sierra car following the shooting , in the early hours , of Special Constable Goodman and PC Kelly during a routine vehicle check on the A64 Leeds-York Road . |
| 18 | A coastguard claimed he had been ordered to look out for ‘ charred bodies ’ in the water . |
| 19 | It was but a short step from there to the deduction that the woman was the one they had been ordered to look out for , and the guard shouldered the door aside , bounding inwards . |
| 20 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 21 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |