Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fumbles for defusing words . |
| 2 | The reasons she advances for maintaining the book 's integrity are based on modesty of intention : it is better not to divulge the precise methods of punishment used by its Mrs Teachum , since the book is addressed less to teachers than to pupils . |
| 3 | That 's when they when they calls for selling . |
| 4 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 5 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 6 | Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 7 | And Shell U K will have to wait until tomorrow to hear what sentence it receives for causing a 30 mile oil slick , which polluted the River Mersey . |
| 8 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 9 | This is an extremely important result , both because of its policy implications which we shall consider later in this chapter and because of the scope it offers for testing the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 10 | The quickening presence of the love he longs for seems conspicuous by its absence , a feeling emphasised by the strong-stressed , medially-stopped half-line . |
| 11 | Each family doctor practice will be able to discuss with the local Family Practitioner Committee the amount it needs for prescribing for its patients . |
| 12 | The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has for assisting councils to increase security in high tower block housing . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for reducing waiting times in respect of eye treatments ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 15 | In this , however , he may be naive , for unless he is prepared to say what pertinent effects are , it is not clear what grounds he has for claiming that they always exist . |
| 16 | The even greater increase in the availability of textuality made possible by the digital revolution , combined with the facilities it allows for altering , merging , and adding to already written texts , presents a related but different set of problems to the novelist . |
| 17 | He apologises for phoning so late . |
| 18 | It craves for planning as the alcoholic craves for drink . |
| 19 | ‘ The one he wears for visiting ? ’ |
| 20 | The Senate version , however , is in the expansionist spirit : it calls for establishing a National Institute of Arthritis , Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases . |
| 21 | It calls for logging on federal lands to be reduced to 25 per cent of late 1980s levels , with buffer zones to be established along salmon spawning streams . |
| 22 | And he 's not the best of chums with the Yorkshire Dales National Park , who he criticises for favouring the car driving tourist over the locals with the absurd blocking of planning permission for goal posts on Dent 's football pitch . |
| 23 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 24 | It helps for holding pipes when making joints or for holding fittings which you are dismantling . |
| 25 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 26 | The reason he gives for adopting this standpoint is that reality can be conceived of in many different ways all of which are equally valid . |
| 27 | Also , if your debtor is late in paying it can mean that he pays for financing his lateness instead of you . |
| 28 | It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that with regard to the explicit curriculum , RE has to fight for its life — constant vigilance is the necessary price it pays for retaining any foothold at all in a curriculum groaning under the weight of other priorities . |
| 29 | I hope that we are never foolish enough to take what it does for granted — because that is when it will begin to crumble and fail like so many others have done . |
| 30 | " The heart and soul of a resource collection is not material at all : it lies in the structure of thought it exhibits , in the creative association it provokes and in the opportunities it provides for training the young learner in how to learn and think . " |