Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 2 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 3 | He has organised concerts for them in the past . |
| 4 | Then the dream suddenly changes to nightmare when you hear voices say that they wo n't be able to look after your health because you 're not really worth it : that the treatment you need is not cheap enough so you 'll have to do without : that they would love to provide care for you in the community , but the price is n't right . |
| 5 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 6 | Miss Macdonald , I thought , would probably know about Andrew Stavanger 's dentist — she might well have made appointments for him in the past . |
| 7 | Concern over the standard of living of servicemen was answered by Yeltsin , who detailed provisions for them in the Russian budget . |
| 8 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 9 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 10 | The secretary entered with the coffee tray and made room for it on the desk . |
| 11 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 12 | If they are churchgoers , but unable to go out alone , it is usually possible to organise lifts for them in the cars of other church members to Sunday services as well as week-day activities . |
| 13 | I 've been up there buying things for him in the past when he was er operating the taxi and he had n't time to go himself . |
| 14 | And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering ; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge . |
| 15 | She is not working here this week but should be fielding calls for us after the election . ’ |
| 16 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 17 | Every penny he was paying he was having grant for it from the government Aye . |
| 18 | And I used to have to sing hymns for them on the wards , they used to love that |
| 19 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 20 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 21 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 22 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 23 | We store food for them inside the trees so they do n't starve when the icy-cold winter comes along . ’ |
| 24 | The spiritual area is concerned with the awareness a person has of those elements in existence and experience which may be defined in terms of inner feelings and beliefs ; they affect the way people see themselves and throw light for them on the purpose and meaning of life itself . |
| 25 | A fervent follower of the tariff reform movement of Joseph Chamberlain [ q.v. ] , he began to write leaders and articles for the Morning Post under the editorship of his friend ( Sir ) Fabian Ware [ q.v. ] ; in 1906 he wrote articles for it during the course of a journey through Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and South Africa . |
| 26 | I wo n't offer to meet the ferry — it docks at eight in the morning — but I 'll arrange transport for him to the cottage . |
| 27 | Downstream the child was playing with both dogs , throwing stones for them into the water . |
| 28 | However , since Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were linked to the broader issue of the Indian Ocean ‘ zone of peace ’ Soviet officials still made an effort to gain support for them from the Indian Ocean Third World states and the non-aligned nations in general . |
| 29 | I am raising money for him at the moment . |
| 30 | I followed Jones at the Tournament of Champions , which he won , and even predicted victory for him at the Bob Hope , which he also won . |