Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was good enough to work like a black for the Tories , but would they offer him a seat ? |
| 2 | It was in this late period , between 1380 and 1200 BC , that the cave cult really came into its own , acting as a night-safe for the whole fund of Minoan religious beliefs . |
| 3 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 4 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 5 | ‘ How can he be a Copt and bring money to be given to a Moslem for the Moslem to use against the Copts ? ’ |
| 6 | The least fertile part of the heath was left as a common for the poor to collect firing from . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 8 | These are maps showing lines of equal rates of subsidence , though one has to make the assumption that depth of subsidence equals thickness of sediment multiplied by a constant for the type of sediment involved ( to allow for differential compaction ) . |