Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 2 | ‘ We have here not a few whose high office would make them suitable for the position , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Britain 's main clearing banks are reviewing their lending policies in the light of a draft EC directive which would make them liable for the clean-up costs of their industrial clients , should the latter go into liquidation . |
| 4 | As far as the debtor 's obligations are concerned , he must retain possession of the goods and make them available for the creditor to collect , taking reasonable care of them in the meantime ( s72(4) ) . |
| 5 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 6 | The CD and cassette versions of the single contained five tracks and Gallup deemed them ineligible for the singles charts . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't considered you ready for the council yet , ’ said Frick , when Schiller had finished . |
| 8 | The letter , from Oxfordshire County Council 's engineering department , said : ’ I understand you are the owner of the vehicle involved and therefore must inform you that the council holds you responsible for the costs of repairs arising from this incident . ’ |
| 9 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
| 10 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 11 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 12 | The South Africans were asking the umpires in the West Indies whether they had received their one for the over . |
| 13 | Nearer and nearer the squares came to the picture until there were only four left and Ferdinando made himself ready for the journey to Leghorn , where he would take over Gigia and Oreste from Mr Ogilvy , who continued to Rome , and see one to Florence and the other to Siena . |
| 14 | Timothy is hoping they 'll be smelling their best for the start of the show next Monday . |
| 15 | Apart from the 2.5 litre for the diesel Scorpio which is bought from PSA , Ford produces its own for the Fiesta , Escort , Orion , and Sierra . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was that which made her avid for the things that money could buy . |
| 17 | I 'll do my best for the gentleman . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Whether you scold me or thank me , I 'll always do my best for the family at all times . |
| 19 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 20 | He also proclaimed himself fit for the job and fully recovered from the heart attack that threatened his career over four years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ I just hope whoever wins will do their best for the country . ’ |
| 22 | No reports of flounder from the Nawddach estuary which has probably seen its worst for the species for more than ten years . |
| 23 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 24 | He had been made mayor by the Germans during the Occupation , and had in fact done his best for the villagers . |
| 25 | Then the judge must do his best for the community as a whole , frankly and honestly , not pretending to " discover " some law beneath the surface of statutes or precedents that only he can see . |
| 26 | The effect of such an agreement between a creditor and a third party with regard to the debt is to render it impossible for the creditor afterwards to sue the debtor for it . |
| 27 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 28 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |
| 29 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 30 | The contracting system to which my hon. Friend referred has made it possible for the health authority to provide extra capacity for the specialty at Exeter hospital which will ensure that the waiting list can be worked off much more quickly than would otherwise be possible . |