Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 2 | The cost per head will be £5.00 ( which allows for a contribution to NCT funds if enough of us go ) and its obviously sensible to arrange for us to share 4–5 cars . |
| 3 | Ballymena will be the nearest club to my new home , so it was only natural to play for them . |
| 4 | ‘ If Steve does n't play for Liverpool he is obviously unlikely to play for us . |
| 5 | Rather to the surprise of my new employers , since I had been so eager to work for them , I told them I should not be able to start for a fortnight ( I needed to recover , being exhausted by my burden of guilt ) . |
| 6 | The Estwicks were in Hong Kong , Giles having been required to visit the head office of one of their major commercial sponsors to finalise the details of a competition the radio station was shortly due to run for them , and Cavell Fielding had also departed for the Crown Colony a few days previously , telling Maria that whether she returned depended on Luke 's instructions . |
| 7 | When parental care is inadequate , children should be placed with those who are best able to care for them . |
| 8 | Rory did , but Rory was immensely happy to wait for her , to go along with any whim . |
| 9 | The desperate conviction of the publishing trade that famous people are somehow obliged to write for it may well lead to nothing more than four-figure fax bills . |
| 10 | You need to take stock of your situation properly and plan the course of action most likely to work for you . |
| 11 | Though numbers were few overall , males were three times more likely to vote for it than females . |
| 12 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 13 | Buzz had read newspaper accounts of old people who had been forcibly removed from their homes and admitted to nursing homes ; such people had been robbed by the very guardians who were legally supposed to care for them . |
| 14 | Offline is now ready to work for you . |
| 15 | To get good dried apricots it is nowadays necessary to shop for them in wholefood and health food stores . |
| 16 | We 've got a nurse , er a trained nurse , er she does play the piano and she 's quite willing to play for us if only we can get a piano donated . |
| 17 | I think he allows her considerable freedom over her — her weakness , you know , and so she is quite content to work for him whatever the village may say of him , and they do , to be sure , say some very foolish things . |
| 18 | Both local housing authorities and housing associations will try to be helpful in finding somewhere suitable to adapt for you . |
| 19 | Though she was passing through what has been called her first industrial revolution , there was as yet little to show for it in the landscape . |
| 20 | Crookes could not explain satisfactorily what was happening , but Stokes and others involved with the dynamical theory of gases were ultimately able to account for it in terms of collisions and energy . |
| 21 | I often hear and read stories of anglers spending weeks on end in search of Fenland zander with very little to show for it and yet with a little thought they could be catching on a regular basis . |
| 22 | If you feel this too much to do for you , stick to what you are , are already doing . |
| 23 | Educational technology is a theory and a set of hypotheses ; it is a habit of mind , and a readily applicable methodology ; it is far too early to claim for it that it has a large body of accepted practice . |
| 24 | ‘ There are some initiatives going on which interest me , whereby young women who had a child when they were adolescent , and although they love the child , regret very much that they were too young , too immature , and too unsupported to care for it effectively : it 's being suggested that they should go into schools and talk to girls about the glories of motherhood at the right time , but begging them not to embark on it too young . |
| 25 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 26 | Daniel Defoe wrote of Chat Moss , near Manchester , as ‘ being too terrible to contemplate for it will bear neither man nor beast ’ . |
| 27 | Some people are able to acquire the means of production and others are therefore obliged to work for them . |