Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN this chapter I want to search with you for the spirit of place , to conjure up the spirit that will give life and breath to descriptions of places . |
| 2 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 3 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 4 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 5 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 6 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 7 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 8 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 9 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 10 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 11 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 12 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 13 | Later , via a university revue at the Edinburgh Festival , he met Terry Jones and began co-writing with him for The Frost Report . |
| 14 | We were warmly invited to stay with them for the duration of the festival , and were conducted to the top floor for a rather formal preliminary audience with Ranteallo and his elders . |
| 15 | There is still much to be done but the more we ‘ get it right first time ’ the more confidence our customers will have to remain with us for the long term future . |
| 16 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 17 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
| 18 | He should have remained with her for the hunting , devil take it , instead of going to his friend Woolacombe ! |
| 19 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 20 | He was coming to stay with me for the British Grand Prix in three weeks , ’ said Lord Hesketh , now Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords . |
| 21 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 22 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 23 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 24 | Well , if , if there is n't anybody else who wishes to compete with you for the Chair , er , then I think there ought to be a Vice Chair . |
| 25 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |
| 26 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 27 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 28 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 29 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 30 | We explained that we had to do without them for the most part — and be tankful for the older ones and the women . |