Example sentences of "[verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year .
2 Cedric and Dorothy had seemed a centre , even an essential one ; so many well-known people had been in and out with their politics , books , causes , marches for this and that , demonstrations .
3 Only the Good Christ knows why we met for that .
4 There 's just this , it 's just really funny cos I sound really wrecked yeah and I say look hello , hello look Norwegian people I just want to apologize for all this mess and all this crap on this tape but I mean yeah like you know , fuck it
5 I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me .
6 It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused .
7 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
8 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
9 For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants .
10 Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties .
11 Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology .
12 If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer .
13 At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days .
14 Any well-drafted transfer will therefore provide for the transfer of the right to sue for such breaches .
15 This doctrine enables a lessee to sue for any trespass committed between the granting of the lease and his entering in pursuance of it .
16 Blonde , polo-playing Deborah Couples plans to sue for half of Fred 's £20 million fortune .
17 Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years .
18 They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms .
19 I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia .
20 A sufficient moral universe it may remain for those who inhabit it , but they are a dwindling band and for large areas of the country Labour 's world is a cultural world apart .
21 There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site .
22 Normally the others would remain for another hour or so .
23 The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group :
24 He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance .
25 Moreover , a certain prominent Liberal Democrat candidate in both elections found energy to spare for some strenuous Christian Aid , thus earning the gratitude and admiration of his fellow church members .
26 Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable .
27 What does she think for that matter ?
28 I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on
29 There 'll be a great big clamour I sho I should think for those seats !
30 There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts .
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