Example sentences of "[verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local volunteer schemes may be able to arrange a regular visitor or you could contact an employment agency or advertise for a kindly ‘ sitter ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 3 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 4 | Twenty-seven veterans of the summer campaign to Argentina ( minus centre Christian Coeurville who is involved in exams ) , along with the ‘ tired trio ’ — Sella , Mesnel and LaFond — and the ‘ banned trio ’ of Gimbert , Benazzi and Roumat , and Sebastian Conchy ( the Begles and French students flanker ) met for a squad session in Leon in South West France . |
| 5 | We met for a drink . |
| 6 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |
| 7 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 8 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 9 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 10 | The overnight snooze [ all of one-and-a-half hours ] on the ferry was hardly over when it was time to drive onto Reims , where crews from Oslo , Berlin and Edinburgh met for a deserved rest . |
| 11 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 12 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 13 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 14 | Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match . |
| 15 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 16 | For instance , annual sales forecasting for a manufacturing activity undertaking a wide variety of large complex engineering work on a unit and small batch basis may be carried out using a combination of queuing , scheduling and inventory based methods . |
| 17 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 18 | Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet . |
| 19 | They bridge the gap between the desire of lenders to be able to get their money back quickly , and the desire of borrowers to borrow for a long period . |
| 20 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 21 | For example , who should have a right to sue for a 10b-5 violation ? |
| 22 | gave a judgment to the like effect , although he limited his remarks to the ability of a corporation to sue for a libel reflecting on the management of its trade or business . |
| 23 | After referring to the ability of partners to sue for a libel on their firm he said , at pp. 145 , 146–147 , 148 : |
| 24 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 25 | I think that the record will remain for a long , long time . |
| 26 | Soon this was to be entered and then only Tibet and Ethiopia would remain for a time unresponsive to European politics , ideas and technology . |
| 27 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
| 28 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 29 | Hate for a man . |
| 30 | Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a minute before adding the cooked onion , extra oil and chopped olives . |