Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going Rates In recent years most SCE entrants have attained grades A , A , A , B , B or better and have returned for a sixth year at school . |
| 2 | At a quarter past nine there was a tap at the door ; Beryl came in and stood waiting for his attention . |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down and try to relax for a minute . ’ |
| 4 | He decided , though , it would be best to do it alone and started searching for a new workshop where he could work in secret on a new plan . |
| 5 | Provide help for families to stay together and to continue to care for their children at home . |
| 6 | Add vegetables to oil mixture , toss together and leave to stand for 15 minutes . |
| 7 | Miliutin pointed out that if 125,000 men were enlisted annually but required to serve for no more than seven or eight years , in seven years the country would possess a trained reserve of 750,000 men . |
| 8 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 9 | He prefers to have opponents come to him rather than go looking for them , ’ said Lambton Street club secretary Frank Jardine , who will again be in Parry 's corner . |
| 10 | Best stay with what we have rather than try to change for something else . |
| 11 | One can define , for some probe order , the consistency measure Σ c f ∘ ( c ) for the total fit of all the clones to the probes , where f ∘ ( c ) is the fit of the clone c , either as defined above or extended to allow for probes having a length or being repetitive . |
| 12 | Jordan later discovered that two of his party had managed to get away and had made for the rendezvous point which the group aiming for Martuba was to use . |
| 13 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 14 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 15 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 16 | Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the Tory group on Darlington council , says litter and pollution in the river is as bad as ever and has called for swift action . |
| 17 | People do not like to see land set aside , with someone appearing not to be doing very much with the land set aside and getting paid for it . |
| 18 | By this time you should be ready to get home and start saving for your annual trip to the Edinburgh Festival , or maybe the 1992 Barcelona Olympics . |
| 19 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |
| 20 | When the sun set , the travellers woke up and began to prepare for their journey . |
| 21 | Then followed the 4500 , the first ribbing attachment — which worked on some days and not on others ( on the latter I would give up and stop knitting for the day ! ) . |
| 22 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 23 | Later in India and Africa , entire villages were rounded up and forced to work for minimal wages set by foreign officials . |
| 24 | Faith 's day starts at around 6am when baby Jake wakes up and starts yelling for a feed . |
| 25 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 26 | Yes my children do go to school now and have done for some months now . |
| 27 | We should have been over the pass by now and starting to look for the Hacienda Lucinda . |
| 28 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 29 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 30 | He 's obviously not playing as well and gets nailed for it . |