Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has given me extra motivation for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 2 | He added : ‘ The Chinese students have given me great hope for the future of China and Tibet . |
| 3 | My P L C under the Chairmanship of Chester Tabler Mark has been wonderful and the encouragement I have received from seeing the enthusiasm and commitment of the very young Tablers as I purposely invited twenty year old Tablers to be involved in the P L C has given me considerable optimism for the future of Round Table . |
| 4 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 5 | The collective noun for each of these types is ‘ coffin' , but the trade maintained its own nomenclature for the constituent parts . |
| 6 | AEA is poised to capitalise on the hard work of the last three years and realise its carefully-laid plans for the future , according to John Maltby . |
| 7 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 8 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 9 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 10 | Thus immediately he managed to drive a wedge between the virtuous students , worthy of support , who studied sciences for the sake of society , and the self-indulgent arts students who pursued their chosen subject for the sake of their own benefit . |
| 11 | These pressures are much greater among the young who are attempting to find their own accommodation for the first time . |
| 12 | Here was yet another aspect of Thrush Green to increase his growing affection for the place . |
| 13 | He seemed to have resolved his sexual hang-ups for the time being and was content with his lonely existence . |
| 14 | Christo has cherished a vision of wrapping the Reichstag in military silver , flame-retardant fabric since 1971 , when he created his first studies for the project . |
| 15 | Presenting his budget this week , the finance minister , Wang Bingqian , used his favourite word for the third year running to describe the state of the public purse : ‘ grim ’ . |
| 16 | In addition , he has pursued his own passion for the painted interior decoration of this particular kind and scale of East Anglian yeoman farmhouse — a type of house that , only a few years ago , was hardly considered worthy of notice , so complete was the obsession of historians with work by named architects . |
| 17 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
| 18 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
| 19 | Of course , you may have to provide your own substitute for the impeccable James who serves it . |
| 20 | He owes us some money for the , for the , the milk that was off . |
| 21 | The French government on Oct. 14 affirmed its continued support for the government of President Idress Déby and four days later announced that 300 paratroops would be sent to reinforce the 1,100 French troops already stationed in Chad . |
| 22 | The opposition 's agreement that Tshisekedi should remain its sole candidate for the post of Prime Minister was breached by an offer from Jean Nguza Karl I Bond , leader of the Union of Federalists and Independent Republicans ( UFERI ) , to act as interim prime minister under Mobutu . |
| 23 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 24 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 25 | Diplomatic tension between the two countries grew steadily during October in the wake of threats by the Turkish government to cut off the flow of the Euphrates river unless Syria ceased its tacit support for the KWP , which was in direct contravention of the Turkish-Syrian agreement of 1987 . |
| 26 | On land , and in particular in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland , this was certainly not in the well-known form of lime juice , as the Gaels applied their own wisdom for the prevention of the disease . |
| 27 | But when the nation was not at war the social round of the Fields was formidable Olive , it is said , eventually grew tired of Morris Grange so , in 1919 , Norman bought Lartington Hall with its 140 acres of parkland , 3 grouse moors , 3 lakes , 13 farms and most of the cottages in the village , and it became their principal residence for the rest of their lives . |
| 28 | Realising her own love for the same man , there was a sadness in Tilly Mulliver 's voice . |
| 29 | At a further party congress held in Rosenheim , Bavaria , on Jan. 13-14 , 1990 , there was internal conflict and a heavy police presence as the party agreed its new programme for the immediate reunification of Germany with its capital in Berlin . |
| 30 | Vietnam announced its full support for the declaration as did ASEAN 's Western dialogue partners and . |