Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 2 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 3 | The author , David Ottewill , qualified as an architect in the 1950s and went on to work for John Brandon-Jones . |
| 4 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 5 | Scared enough to go for Vecchi 's pitch that she 'd be better off hiding out some place . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's his mother again , ’ she said , stopping suddenly to wait for Marjorie , another woman in the group , who was lagging behind . |
| 7 | As he had lived alone before his stroke , he had to hire 24-hour nursing help , and a nurse accompanied him whenever he went out , which was initially only to attend for rehabilitation care . |
| 8 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 9 | Then we all settled down to wait for Madam . |
| 10 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 11 | Nothing daunted , Havelock Wilson , having just returned from his foreign travels , accompanied by Tom Mann , recently released from gaol following a term of imprisonment for inciting troops to mutiny , set off to visit four or five provincial ports , not only to appeal for funds for the London men , but also to persuade workers at these ports to join in and make the strike a national one . |
| 12 | Sapphire , the Black woman who is light-skinned enough to pass for White is pregnant by her White fiance ’ , but again the child does not appear as it is annihilated along with its mother . |
| 13 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 14 | I knew he could not be trusted , and I decided to tell Mr Jaggers that Orlick was not responsible enough to work for Miss Havisham . |
| 15 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 16 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 17 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 18 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 19 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 20 | Accused of hen-stealing , fox and vixen had once again insisted on going back to their lair alone to look for feathers . |
| 21 | Mr. F.W. Dee ( Company Secretary at the Brewery and brother to found Harry Dee ) had been down to play for Henley but had to withdraw ‘ having arranged to play for Peppard ’ . |
| 22 | I feel I am bowling well enough to play for England again , though Ian probably was a bit unlucky . |
| 23 | In Darcy 's Utopia there will be elections , but people will be expected merely to vote for people they personally like . |
| 24 | One sees the pleasure Bill Deedes will have got , pleasure enough to last for months . |
| 25 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 26 | CO2 systems are also flexible enough to allow for variations in product temperature , ambient temperature and the duration of transit for delivery . |
| 27 | We are unable to love ourselves enough to allow for weakness . |
| 28 | In the Osma system , a small hole in each pipe connector tells you when you have pushed the pipe in far enough to allow for expansion : 10mm is normally allowed . |
| 29 | Furthermore , since they are not directives but guidelines they must be flexible enough to allow for teacher participation and the exercise of initiative so that teachers can follow their course in reference to the bearings provided . |
| 30 | When she was broke , she had been stupid enough to plead for credit . |