Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a customer wants to pay for something through the system , he or she presents a banker 's card or a Visa credit card to the shopkeeper . |
| 2 | The cut-off rules which determine which records will be retrieved , and what weight a record has to achieve for it to be counted as a possible match , are fairly complex and purely pragmatic , being based on experience from repetition of real searches . |
| 3 | Cheltenham has to cater for everyone from burger to banquet . |
| 4 | Bob is advising Clinton how to cope when he leaves Stoke Mandeville in a couple of months time and has to fend for himself in his own home : |
| 5 | But if elected on June 8th , he plans to pay for it by leasing the city 's international airport for 30 years to a private-sector manager . |
| 6 | In summing up the wet-weather skills of the South Sea Islanders , American journalist Ed Hagerty put it better than anyone , ‘ It seems to rain for everyone except Fiji ’ . |
| 7 | She promises to come for him at noon . |