Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 2 | However , in accordance with the conventions of the time , and because of his anticipated death , much would remain for his executors to arrange . |
| 3 | And it 's our intention that that land should remain for our children 's children 's children , that 's the first point . |
| 4 | Other students from outside the UK attending a British university for a course lasting over six months are entitled to free care for any medical condition which may arise during their stay in the UK . |
| 5 | If difficulties do arise during your time abroad , you may feel isolated and vulnerable to pressure both from local management and head office . |
| 6 | They were clean creatures which did not excrete during their lifetime . |
| 7 | When the war broke out , Anna was commissioned into the Army , where she did her service for her newly adopted country . |
| 8 | The qualities which make a girl smart and successful at her work would similarly make for her success in the marriage market . " |
| 9 | It 's the sort of feature anyone half handy can make for their own water garden . |
| 10 | It does not make for your typical comic fare . |
| 11 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 12 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 13 | What provision could he make for his family during his absence ? |
| 14 | No , no , no , I take your point , but I did n't mean that , it 's the way I 'd read the press release , I was n't the one reading it , so certainly they it would that would be please do n't forget I mean no one is going to really knock for your English |
| 15 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 16 | He taught her history : the story of Pelopidas and Epaminondas ; he taught her geography , taking a shovel and pail of water into the garden , where he would build for her instructive peninsulas , islands , gulfs and promontories . |
| 17 | One is the elegant collection of hotels where , as the town 's name suggests , you can bathe for your health just as the Romans did 2,000 years ago , but in much greater comfort and with considerably more expert supervision . |
| 18 | What do you eat for your dinners ? ’ |
| 19 | By the time that Colt 's father had warmed a broth to take upstairs with the scrambled egg and toast that he would himself eat for his supper , the letter to his son would have been delivered to the Colonel 's department . |
| 20 | Young people frequently dismiss remarks which older people may make about their impending or eventual death . |
| 21 | If it is correct that our trilobite lived above the sea bottom , actively swimming in the water , there are certain predictions we can make about its geological occurrence which can be tested by looking in the rocks . |
| 22 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 23 | In an exuberant interview , David Dimbleby calls the results programme ‘ a drama [ in which ] heroes and villains rise and fall ’ ; elsewhere in the supplement , Sissons speaks of the excitement of seeing politicians ' masks slip , and backroom boss Philip Campbell describes his studio as a ‘ theatre-in-the-round ’ , attracting viewers to ‘ gather round David Dimbleby 's stage to see the plot unfold through his narrative ’ . |
| 24 | Since then , Back To Basics has n't looked back , refining its relaxed feel , attracting a slightly older crowd , and preserving the enthusiasm and innovation by turning away the wrong sort at the door ( ‘ It 's just letting in people you 'd want as your mate , ’ according to co-founder and one time punk Dave Beer ) . |
| 25 | What do you want as your little birthday present ? |
| 26 | Wayne , in her mother 's view , was more than just an ordinary valley kid ; he was a walking symbol of everything that she did n't want for her daughter . |
| 27 | Right , what do you want for your dinner ? |
| 28 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |
| 29 | Also they do not believe that our experience ( as , for example , that a woman 's ministry feels good and appropriate ) is a reliable guide to what God may want for his Church . |
| 30 | In another sexual adventure , Is My Palm Read ? , a palm-reader turns out the lights on her so that he can leer through her see-through skirt and blouse . |