Example sentences of "[to-vb] for money " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 2 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 3 | Swainson 's and Forbes ' energies were diffused in their own struggle for existence ( though both hoped to live like gentlemen rather than just exist ) and the need to write fast and to lecture for money and reputation . |
| 4 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 5 | We used to play for money , he and I , twenty years ago . |
| 6 | " And what are you going to use for money to begin with , eh ? |
| 7 | ‘ Did he — er — mention what he 's going to do for money while he 's away ? ’ |
| 8 | To qualify for money , the projects had to demonstrate that they were going to work effectively in a joint way . |
| 9 | For example , you have to account for money spent on holidays , and it 's wise to set a certain amount aside for emergencies , like the boiler breaking down . |
| 10 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
| 11 | The county council will have to ask colleges to bid for money on its behalf to pay for the vocational adult education courses it runs . |
| 12 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 13 | He rowed him back however and the convict went to the door to beg for money . |
| 14 | I thought she was probably going to ask for money . |
| 15 | I suppose the heat had made me edgy : though I knew that to ask for money as a loan was the only way she could keep her dignity , I held an angry conversation with her in my mind . |
| 16 | Whereas the original demand had been for actual ships , the Crown began in the 1590s to ask for money instead . |
| 17 | Because er most of the year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers , and then one day a year you send the little so and sos out to knock on peoples doors to ask for money er and sweets and things like that . |
| 18 | In 1612 the ambassador in Paris took the desperate step of writing directly to James I to ask for money and persuaded the duc de Bouillon , one of the greatest French nobles , to back his request . |
| 19 | Finding herself in severe financial straits she went along to the appropriate authority to ask for money to buy food for her children . |
| 20 | ‘ He is embarrassed to ask for money , but he must train full-time if he is to do himself justice . |
| 21 | ‘ We are about to really start approaching businesses in the Darlington area to ask for money or help in kind , ’ said Robin . |