Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't mind Come Up and See Me being released ; God willing it will go high enough for them to invite me on Top Of The Pops !
2 Having done this … what was more natural than for them to invite the sister institution , with its professedly similar aims , to join them ?
3 It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation .
4 So , is it in order for them to mug or murder Mr Symon and , if not , what do we do to protect him ?
5 Thus in their reply in 1897 to a memorial from the men asking for a 50-hour week , the Edinburgh Master Printers " Association ( MPA ) pleaded that competition was too intense for them to agree : " The great bulk of printing now done in Edinburgh is for London publishers .
6 It would clearly be in their interests for them to agree to bid £10 an acre for one-half the acreage each .
7 We are still waiting for them to agree or not to that .
8 erm does n't given any more details than that , but it 's red brick to local authority approval , so they 're going to submit it to them for them to agree that it fits in .
9 This is because it is second nature for them to pose their questions at the level of the individual organism .
10 I roll the glass ball round in my hand a bit , waiting for them to say summat .
11 Easy for them to say .
12 Why is it so important for them to say such things ?
13 For them to say either of these records sounds like The Stones or The Faces is insane .
14 It 's easy for them to say , ‘ Okay , put this in the computer and we 'll find someone to sing it . ’
15 ‘ Local authorities have an independent responsibility from 1 April and it is less than satisfactory for them to say they will pay the same rates as central government , ’ he said .
16 Sun continues to say it will use the chip but it 's kind of hard for them to say where definitively until there 's working silicon .
17 Easy for them to say , she thought bitterly .
18 It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright .
19 Again , space was provided for them to say in what ways and the following typify what was written :
20 Er , I think there is a tendending now , for them to say , oh , I 'm terribly sorry , we can only do this against payment .
21 Wait wait waiting for them to say something .
22 It 's alright for them to say we 're gon na do this and
23 If there are patients waiting to see the ENP , how long is it reasonable for them to wait while she is treating someone else ?
24 Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ?
25 All National Park authorities will become independent Boards , which will make it easier for them to carry out their tasks effectively .
26 It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure .
27 Their own experience leads them on , for example , to rejecting a full box or bucket that they think is too heavy for them to carry .
28 Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years .
29 With the Technical Branch based at Southampton it was very convenient for them to carry out maintenance and to turn the engines over occasionally during the cold weather .
30 The government has also failed in its responsibility for the Health and Sa Safety Executive by restricting year after year adequate resources for them to carry out the function that they were designed for .
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