Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life , as John recalls it , was happy if hard , with not much time left over for fun after the daily toil was complete and certainly nothing to spare for luxuries . |
| 2 | They have short attention spans so do n't expect them to sit for hours on end without fidgeting , yawning or falling asleep . |
| 3 | Emmie said , ‘ Mr Sargent likes me to go for walks with him . |
| 4 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 5 | Yes , or do you want me to wait for Patrick ? |
| 6 | ‘ Pertwee told me to wait for Charlie Hatton , ’ Cullam said . |
| 7 | When the kids are really young , it 's no use expecting them to wait for Christmas Day — and two four-month-old Siberian tiger cubs at Howletts animal park , Canterbury , are no exception . |
| 8 | For instance , although we are not self-sufficient in milk products , British dairy farmers have quotas imposed on them to compensate for French and German over-production . |
| 9 | But I 'd just like everyone to know for Daddy 's sake that he had nothing to do with it . |
| 10 | When I was thirteen my father wanted me to try for Westminster School , one of the main ‘ public ’ — that is to say , private — schools . |
| 11 | ‘ Five years ago , it was rare for someone to ask for help , ’ a debt expert said last night . |
| 12 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 13 | Such theories also opened up other fields in which to search for inspiration . |
| 14 | He had awful visions of himself walking the streets , demeaning himself to look for work . |
| 15 | This gives a starting point from which to look for patterns of discrepancy in the subcategories . |
| 16 | Of course , those who provide such care in the context of a lifetime of love have another frame of reference upon which to draw for satisfaction . |
| 17 | Then Alec Smith , the Prime Minister 's son , spoke , pledging himself to fight for God 's will in Africa and calling for a giving up of ‘ pride and privilege , to save a continent ’ . |
| 18 | We explored the hamlet then chose a new-looking building offering ‘ Bed and Breakfast ’ from which to ask for water . |
| 19 | But the first requirement is for Mr Bush , who has the best bully pulpit from which to push for change , to show that whatever happens to oil prices he remains serious about fashioning an energy strategy . |
| 20 | The advertisement pages of The Scotsman in the golden Edwardian afternoon carried long columns of vacancies for parlourmaids , cooks and housemaids ( so it is not surprising , though it must have been a source of irritation , that male printers hostile to women entering the trade often urged them to look for work " in service " ) . |
| 21 | Their father , Oliver P. Bernard , the theatre designer who had worked at Covent Garden and the Boston Opera House and who had also designed Art Deco interiors for Lyons restaurants , had died insolvent , thereby terminating his sons ' education and obliging them to look for work . |
| 22 | Without patronage , however , political interests withered in time , for the needs of the voters would drive them to look for aid elsewhere if there did not seem a reasonable probability that their present connections might recover their lost influence in London . |
| 23 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 24 | Of those who take the tests , few score high enough marks to enable them to apply for assistance from their own government or overseas institutions . |
| 25 | On March 28 , 1990 , the Cabinet agreed to tighten procedures for ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe , requiring them to apply for West German citizenship in their country of residence rather than simply coming to West Germany . |
| 26 | Under this stage all holders of vouchers who had not placed them with investment funds were able to use them to apply for shares in the 1,500 companies selected for privatization . |
| 27 | When James Gill of SPAG informed the County Council of the lack of planning permission for the lake , the council wrote to Mogul asking them to apply for planning permission to retain the lake . |
| 28 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 29 | With LMS , decisions about whom to select for appointment rest with the governing body . |
| 30 | He told him to whom to apply for union membership . |