Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 2 | There was no mention of hair , though Rufus knew hair could persist intact for far more years than those bones had been in the grave , and there was nothing about clothing . |
| 3 | AN ARTIST whose talents lay unused for 20 years headed an exhibition by five women at the weekend . |
| 4 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 5 | What did you make that for ? |
| 6 | Are you gon na make that for Chris ? |
| 7 | Hm , I 'll make that for you then . |
| 8 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 9 | He , he made possible for , for a resurrection |
| 10 | 26 April : The Mail on Sunday comments on the calculation that the cosmos will remain habitable for 10 to the power of 76 years . |
| 11 | But the vote in April has fallen due for payment in September . |
| 12 | Some children remain dry for years , then relapse after coming under stress . |
| 13 | Now that hope will have been taken from her , leaving her feeling that they have unfinished business , which ( unless she believes in life after death ) will remain unfinished for ever . |
| 14 | The CLAWS tagset used for tagging the LOB corpus is very similar to that of TAGGIT but is somewhat larger with 134 tags to achieve greater delicacy of analysis while preserving compatibility with the Brown corpus ( Johansson et al , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Now that 's a modern version , again I made that for a couple of years ago but the tradition there was you knitted on hands and you ladies will probably know , four pins , no seams , all on the circular , right up to the neck and then the cast on the sleeve there and again , no seams . |
| 16 | I made that for Christopher when he was |
| 17 | If I leave her nappy off she can stay dry for four hours , but then she wets the floor as she ca n't hold on any longer . |
| 18 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 19 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 20 | You can unplug that for the moment . |
| 21 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 22 | I know the world does n't want that for Britain . |
| 23 | " Privacy ! " they laugh " What do we want that for ? |
| 24 | What does he want that for ? |
| 25 | 135 for 3 became 138 for 6 and the writing was in its usual place on the wall . |
| 26 | She relies heavily on tip-offs , in turn alerting county and metropolitan records offices about historic company records due for release by liquidators . |
| 27 | Erm , the local government act nineteen ninety-two permits the auditor to actually advise the council to er matters which we believe that you should consider in full , er er , County erm , Council meeting , and I 'm pleased to confirm that for this year there is nothing of that nature , that er , we would put to you , to refer to . |
| 28 | In Fig. 2 , the reader should be able to confirm that for interest rates above Oi 1 , where the speculative demand for money is zero , the LM curve becomes vertical . |
| 29 | I ran through the fields , laid low for about two hours , then I made my way to the motorway and hitched it to Birmingham . |
| 30 | I indeed er in the er companies act in nineteen eighty nine the minister himself er argued that for any system to be effective there had to be a distance between regulators and regulations but the only people who have done any inquiry into B C C I which is the Institute er it itself is the mafia regulating the mafia auditors trying to regulate er the the auditors . |