Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time . |
| 2 | If not , it gives you time to take evasive action — either to build up your savings to make up for any expected shortfall , or to increase your premiums . |
| 3 | It takes about half an hour to set up for 2 shots , which will take up about 5 seconds each on screen . |
| 4 | If the answer is yes , ask your Guider to write off for more information . |
| 5 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 6 | On short finals full flap is lowered , the speed is brought back to 75 kts and the propeller levers are moved into fully fine in case there is a need to go around for any reason . |
| 7 | Failure to turn out for major party festivals ( May 1 , August 23 ) can bring harsher sanctions . |
| 8 | But Lillywhite said : ‘ My Banana squad and manager Keith Lambert give me confidence to hold on for two more stages . |
| 9 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 10 | Leave the cake to dry out for 24 hrs . |
| 11 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 12 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 13 | Sometimes she thought that she and William both had a need to make up for those lost ten years . |
| 14 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 15 | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO FILL UP FOR 30 MILES it read . |
| 16 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 17 | I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue . |
| 18 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 19 | Maybe this was my chance to make up for all those little oversights and lapses in the past , which we all have no matter how hard we try to forget or overlook them . |
| 20 | Gimenez , who went the distance before losing to a 36-year-old Roberto Duran in 1987 is relishing his chance to make up for lost time . |
| 21 | So up we 'd go and we 'd have to keep the crowd back and the object was to wait for Mary to come out for some more beer which was the pub across the road , and when she did , grab her . |
| 22 | You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks . |
| 23 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 24 | I mean there are certain things like , the general conditioners to benefit , which erm , are alright , but there are other things that I know about and that I will pass on to people to look out for that I would n't want eh , that you would n't want eh , erm , outsiders to know . |
| 25 | So , we 're gon na use red lining to strike out for re- issues , to highlight the things that are different . |
| 26 | Grant was removed from those authorities , so that any increase in spending brought a fall in income and , therefore , implied a further increase in rates to make up for that loss . |
| 27 | However , anyone who is on the move , under stress or is likely to skip meals should think about taking a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement to make up for any deficiencies in diet . |
| 28 | The pattern of the first day of the autumn term was fixed ; the first-years , who had arrived at their halls of residence the day before , came to the department in the morning to sign up for various optional courses . |
| 29 | It took us ages to save up for those trainers . |
| 30 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |