Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I longed for human society and for exercise ( a good long tramp , for example ) , but no doubt Odilo had his reasons . |
| 2 | Erm , Right , erm , we get this thorny question now about how to establish how much somebody needs for living assurance . |
| 3 | So she opted for desperate measures to get him to change his image . |
| 4 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 5 | So it pays for cryptic species to die soon after their breeding period is over . |
| 6 | Anyone who did not read Miss Post 's book before their first voyage had only themselves to blame for sartorial gaffes . |
| 7 | Normally they forecast for open water so when they say it 's going to blow Force 3/4 , the wind on the beach tends to be nearer Force 2/3 . |
| 8 | Eventually she plumped for Persian help , but at a time ( 412 ) when her potential critics inside the league were less effective ( cp. p. 97 on Corinth ) . |
| 9 | Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice . |
| 10 | ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town . |
| 11 | Here he calls for unified action from education and industry to ensure that the UK 's future professionals are not left in the cold . |
| 12 | Then she added for good measure , ‘ I do n't know what you want to talk to me about , do I ? ’ |
| 13 | The more determinedly she hunts for confirmatory details the more the sources and scale of her information multiply , so that she reaches a stage of nervous exhaustion from sheer overload . |
| 14 | What was appropriate in our mothers ' day is not necessarily so in ours , and therefore we look for new sources of guidance , since instruction of daughters by mothers is less readily acceptable than it was . |