Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 2 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 3 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 4 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
| 5 | More recently , industrial contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) have accumulated in the liver and kidneys of pilot whales in quantities which make them unfit for human consumption . |
| 6 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 7 | The Seagate drives I used for this article required 2 jumper connections made on the master drive , and all the connectors removed from the slave drive … |
| 8 | ‘ You want me to pay for this information ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose you expect me to pay for that drink , do you ? ’ |
| 10 | Keegan responded : ‘ It sounds like he wants me to stay for 10 years . |
| 11 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 12 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 13 | After all that and the investment of nearly £30 billion in real terms , this nation has nothing to show for 12 years of this Conservative Government . |
| 14 | So you got two choices : either you send someone to look for these clowns , or you say , ‘ Oh well , I do n't know , something must have happened , and I 'll forget all about it . |
| 15 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 16 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 17 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 18 | This has you aiming for each number in turn ( 1–20 ) , finishing on the bull . |
| 19 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 20 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 21 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 22 | He faces , as well as an increasingly bad-tempered party , a pesky opposition noisily pressing him to push for Taiwanese independence . |
| 23 | An auto-minute button is handy — just press it to cook for one minute on high ( 100 per cent ) . |
| 24 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 25 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 26 | The greater the freedom given ( and in this case the overt touting of particular potential clients and an obligation not to offend whatever passes for good taste are the only restrictions of substance ) the more numerous the regulations on matters of detail : C Northcote Parkinson would be in his element ! |
| 27 | So when one producer or studio is responsible for a string of hits , it 's only necessary to find out what distinguishes its operation from that of other , less successful , operations , or what has changed when the same producer or studio hit a bum run , to discover what makes for successful film production . |
| 28 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 29 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 30 | How does he square the Government 's commitment to allow public service managers the right to manage with compelling them to opt for competitive tendering in circumstances where , he will accept , that can be costly to prepare and can lead to inflexibility in meeting changing circumstances ? |