Example sentences of "for [conj] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 2 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 3 | Play Bodin in the position you bought him for and show off our defence that otherwise will leak goals like two seasons ago . |
| 4 | She realised that more was called for and went on : ‘ I 'm curious because I 've never had a chance to look round here before . ’ |
| 5 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 6 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 7 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 8 | And in fact the there , most of the traffic calming is actually being paid for and carried out by the developer for that scheme . |
| 9 | ( c ) No partner should carry on any business which competes with the firm or from which he derives benefit at the expense of the firm Section 30 of the Partnership Act provides as follows : If a partner , without the consent of the other partners , carries on any business of the same nature as and competing with that of the firm , he must account for and pay over to the firm all profits made by him in that business . |
| 10 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 11 | It was something you had to accept understand the reasons for and carry on regardless . |
| 12 | In the Edinburgh area at the moment there are several organisations very willing and enthusiastic to pay for and carry out much-needed upgrading of the Union Canal towpath , but it appears that different departments of BW are giving different reactions . |
| 13 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 14 | This breadth of preparing for and following up a development plan should then , suggests the Project Team , be broken down into detailed action plans with specific targets for the following year . |
| 15 | Obstacles such as these lead Bachelard to formulate a theory of ‘ material psychoanalysis ’ which offers a ‘ psychoanalysis of objective knowledge ’ to account for and think through the problem of epistemological obstacles . |
| 16 | Give advice on what is easy to care for and put on . |
| 17 | There will be one optimum pitch setting which gives the maximum blade RPM and this is the ideal point to aim for when setting up the model . |
| 18 | Conner , Seagate , Western Digital , Mitsubishi , Quantum and NEC are names to look for when poking around inside a machine , or if you 're thinking about upgrading your hard disk . |