Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried thinking of others , more as a device than a good , and clenched my thigh muscles for a start , to give half an inch more room to the neighbors . |
| 2 | The analysts have now downgraded their inflation forecasts for the rest of this year , but many are still expecting the underlying rate to creep back up to the top of the Chancellor 's target range of 4 per cent and above this summer . |
| 3 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Honestly God , if you had seen my performance reports for the last forty years you would not be offering me this position . ’ |
| 5 | Old Sun-3 and Sun386i users can exchange their CPU boards for an entry-level Model 30 . |
| 6 | The Offtackle Plan of November 1949 referred to the need to retard a Soviet advance , but the Americans continued to refine their contingency plans for a fighting retreat to such peripheral positions in or around continental Europe as proved tenable against a Soviet offensive . |
| 7 | Since then campaign organiser Ann Robarts and her team have raised more than £100,000 towards the building 's £1m construction costs and the £650,000 which will be needed to cover its running costs for the first year . |
| 8 | An LIG employee had telephones several City analysts and encouraged them to lower their profit forecasts for the year — a typical , if somewhat blatant , case of the widespread practice of massaging . |
| 9 | David Ewans , Lecturer in Art and Design at Napier College , has valued our art books for the past 17 years . |
| 10 | Here they hope to fill their order books for the coming season . |
| 11 | May I remind the Prime Minister that the predecessors of his Back-Bench colleagues waved their Order Papers for a Prime Minister who promised ’ peace in our time ’ , just as he has promised ’ no single currency in our time ’ . |
| 12 | Purely out of tact , Maxim braced his brain cells for a kamikaze mission and opted to drink in parallel . |
| 13 | For an additional £145 visitors can opt to vacate their hotel rooms for a two-night safari . |
| 14 | Kevin Keegan , Ian Botham , Sally Gunnell and Nick Brown , not to mention figures from the world of showbusiness , Max Boyce and Fiona Fullerton , all took their courtside tables for the running buffet which was served during the tennis . |
| 15 | The Forestry Commission has announced its spending plans for the three years 1992/93 — 1994/95 . |
| 16 | Mind you , once again , England wore their tracksuit tops for the anthem at Murrayfield . |
| 17 | Colin 's father Brian , 50 , sent his son programmes for every home game , while Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven sent him a video tape and got all the team to autograph a football shirt for him . |
| 18 | • If you have to accompany one of your children under 9 years old into hospital , the plan will pay your bed charges for the period of their treatment . |
| 19 | We only keep your delivery records for a limited time , and if there is too long an interval between the date of despatch and receiving a claim , then we are unable to investigate the problem as thoroughly as we would wish . |
| 20 | Harrison met his party colleagues for a celebration dinner on the outskirts of the city . |
| 21 | Some 78 individuals presented their nomination papers for the presidency , 18 for the vice-presidency , and 265 for 24 Senate seats . |
| 22 | He had to be carried from the field and the club immediately cancelled their flight bookings for the Scot as a precaution . |
| 23 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 24 | But imagine how easy your monthly budgeting would become if you could reduce your mortgage payments for the next three years . |
| 25 | Every year you will have the opportunity to review your budgeting requirements for the next twelve months . |
| 26 | At the baker 's I offered to exchange my leather gloves for a small cake , but the baker 's wife looked at my dirty clothes and said , ‘ I 'm sorry , but how do I know you have n't stolen them ? ’ |
| 27 | Over the next couple of weeks all nurses , midwives and health visitors in the UK will be receiving their ballot papers for the UKCC elections . |
| 28 | Elsie Cuming has extended her movement classes for the mentally handicapped and now has several classes for sub-normal patients at Princess Christian 's Hospital , some of which are run in conjunction with the Tonbridge Adult Education Centre . |
| 29 | Some cat manuals solemnly instruct their readers in how to take their pet cats for a walk . |
| 30 | ’ At box-offices up and down the land , in Ipswich , Hanley and Rhyl , the crowds are waving their credit cards for the ‘ Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet ’ tour of 25 British towns . |