Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for something " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe has voted for something new and something greener and closer to the community . |
| 2 | It would be a new tax , involve paying for something that is at present free and would hit hardest at low-income car-owners . |
| 3 | When a customer wants to pay for something through the system , he or she presents a banker 's card or a Visa credit card to the shopkeeper . |
| 4 | I 'm not the sort of person who gets what they want and then starts longing for something else . |
| 5 | ‘ I got shot for something I never did , ’ said Jason , who was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital for treatment . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't blame them for trying to make a bit of cash , but it gets ridiculous when they insult you for refusing to pay for something you did n't want doing , ’ fumes Mel , 39 . |
| 7 | Yeah , you 're absolutely right very important point yeah no amount of eye contact is going to compensate for something that that does n't hold their interest . |
| 8 | Relationships outside the family begin to count for something . |
| 9 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 10 | They are to help pay for something you need but can not afford at the time you need it . |
| 11 | And she likes that garden and she does n't mind working for something on that . |
| 12 | A stocky male figure entered from a room at the rear and began looking for something beneath the counter . |
| 13 | Simple aluminium lean-to conservatories start from under £1,000 , but you can spend up to £25,000 if you decide to go for something complete with double glazing , brick walls and decorative finials . |
| 14 | But when it is used to describe what happens during reading , or any attempt at reading , it seems to stand for something less focused and further from full awareness — something which might more appropriately be called ‘ anticipation ’ or ‘ expectancy ’ . |
| 15 | For example , the small cell was so amply used in the classical period that one would think a composer of originality would have looked for something different . |
| 16 | We could have looked for something to press it with and pressed it . |
| 17 | Crow had to start searching for something to eat . |
| 18 | A bell was ringing and all the animals started looking for something . |
| 19 | When you do n't have a purpose , you know , it 's easy to keep looking for something … |
| 20 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 21 | On securing his BSc at University , he considered a permanent position with Bauteil , but decided to look for something with better prospects . |
| 22 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 23 | Each decision involves a calculable opportunity cost of not having opted for something else . |
| 24 | I would have gone for something a little snappier : ‘ A mad cow with a handbag , ’ comes to mind as a first attempt . |
| 25 | Best stay with what we have rather than try to change for something else . |
| 26 | It gave me the impression of having worked for something and , once defeated , I could take my comfort in the cool blandness of the back room . |
| 27 | Did you have to sign for something to say that you 've had it ? |
| 28 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 29 | They keep searching for something — anything — to sell back home , on Earth . |
| 30 | Should you mind if we went to look for something to drink instead ? " |