Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 2 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 3 | I think it would be better , in my own experience , move over to that er the left a little bit just to go for a slightly more interesting composition . |
| 4 | Bettinson , a director of education in Stockport , had booked an appointment with his superior yesterday to ask for the unpaid leave he would have needed to complete the tour of Papua New Guinea and New Zealand next summer . |
| 5 | Bettinson , a director of education in Stockport , had booked an appointment with his superior yesterday to ask for the unpaid leave he would have needed to complete the tour of Papua New Guinea and New Zealand next summer . |
| 6 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 7 | The person most to blame for the appearance of shambles is the man who is supposed to be in charge |
| 8 | Put ½ lb. of fine dried apricots to soak in water just to cover for a couple of hours — or overnight if it is more convenient . |
| 9 | A day longer to wait for a letter ! |
| 10 | I phoned up and I got phone up to ask for the information right ? |
| 11 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 12 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 13 | Remember that even if the precinct appears brightly lit to the eye , your camcorder will probably be working flat out to expose for the wide shots . |
| 14 | There is enough area there to call for a two-person crew , so launching is rarely a problem . |
| 15 | The bill was designed to permit workers in companies with more than 50 employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave annually to care for a sick or new child , receive medical treatment or tend to a seriously ill spouse or parent . |
| 16 | And that 's when Gooch will say farewell , having decided before the tour not to stay for the final fortnight . |
| 17 | One does n't miss the odd stem in a large clump , and you can also divide old clumps in spring or autumn , planting the surplus into rows in the vegetable garden or allotment purely to cut for the house . |
| 18 | It was a relief therefore to make for the frozen shore where the parson was protesting that his wife would be safer and more comfortable if she remained in the carriage . |
| 19 | Information about the actual place is sparse , but an Orangutan Foundation representative told BBC WILDLIFE that there are no facilities and no expertise there to care for the orangs , and that the surrounding primary forest has been destroyed by fire and so is unsuitable as a release area . |
| 20 | Not only that , he would know well in advance the order of the programme , and consequently would have altered his training dramatically to account for the extra distance . |
| 21 | However , she also found wide variation in the extent to which different social workers used the referral either to assess for a specific resource or to undertake a more general assessment of need and circumstances . |
| 22 | But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . |
| 23 | It is a good idea not to eat for an hour or two beforehand , or you may end up with some serious indigestion . |
| 24 | Yes , the money still finds its way out to pay for the cloth . ’ |
| 25 | To answer this they brought the sodium iodide detector over to look for the tell-tale gamma rays . |
| 26 | and then we use this method to then go a stage further to prepare for the second presentation . |
| 27 | Firdaus is a prostitute about to die for the murder of her pimp . |
| 28 | Officials are already concerned he does not spend enough time there to qualify for the 12 per cent tax laws . |