Example sentences of "[verb] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me . |
| 3 | Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology . |
| 4 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 5 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 6 | They compensate for this by gaining water from their food both through the workings of their powerful kidneys , which extract much of the water from the urine , and by the condensation of water during breathing . |
| 7 | But the psychologists compensate for this by claiming other kinds of reliability for their analyses . |
| 8 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 9 | Oh I 'll stay for this . |
| 10 | The main proof Van Laue offers for this argument is the polarisation of society between global conflict and a backward society that made a liberal constitution impossible . |
| 11 | In the case of the 1,800 which Book Trust received for this year 's Smarties Prize , they found good homes . |
| 12 | The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month . |
| 13 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 14 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 15 | If the cat sees a shed nearby , or some other hiding place , it will make for this and then stay concealed , alone , waiting for the threat to pass , for the pain to ease . |
| 16 | What on earth was she supposed to wear for this evening with Dane — this evening that was n't exactly a date , yet she could think of no other description for it ? |
| 17 | She said , ‘ What am I going to wear for this old party tomorrow ? |
| 18 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ How far have we got to swim for this competition ? ’ |
| 20 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 21 | David is consequently punished for this action . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 'll be punished for this , Heathcliff , ’ I said sadly . |
| 23 | Delegates from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth told a meeting in Manchester hosted by a group of ‘ nuclear free ’ local authorities that they would be pressing the Government to ensure the money is not diverted for this purpose . |
| 24 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 25 | Equipped for racing , ready to go for this season . |
| 26 | I believe that we have got to go for this strategy if we are continue to fight the freedoms which are the root of our yachting . |
| 27 | And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first . |
| 28 | Yeah we were and I did n't know how to go for this fifty one on the . |
| 29 | and I said well I want it on but he said you 'll have to go for this . |
| 30 | But is n't then the only option to go for this longer term one creation of a rich peasant economy ? |