Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Merton has decided to hold a party for some of his friends . |
| 2 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Laboratories Inc has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals . |
| 3 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Labs has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 4 | Katarina ( Tinka ) Medau , Hinrich and Senta Medau 's daughter , will be in Europe next summer and has offered to take a course for us . |
| 5 | Warrington South MP Mike Hall has promised to organise a lobby for the newly-formed Cheshire Carers group . |
| 6 | Queen drummer Roger Taylor has volunteered to organise a super-group for a concert on Ibiza next summer , while impresario Cameron Mackintosh has donated his musical ‘ Five Guys Named Moe ’ for a one-off performance on September 17 on the island . |
| 7 | The user has attempted to access a module for which he has no access to . |
| 8 | The user has attempted to prepare a package for approval when the package is currently in the process of being approved . |
| 9 | This chapter has tried to establish a perspective for undertaking social work practice from a social services department , in liaison with colleagues from other occupations . |
| 10 | In Britain , however , English has functioned to provide a substitute for any " theory " of the national life in the form of an imponderable base from which the quality of the national life can be assessed . |
| 11 | He has failed to give a timetable for the implementation of those proposals , to set out a schedule which would carry weight and to tackle the problems at base . |
| 12 | PI has failed to add a request for moving modules across the network to your LIFESPAN Authorisation file in your default directory . |
| 13 | This afternoon , the liquidators were meeting to try to find a buyer for the holiday firm , which employs 6 staff at its offices in Summertown . |
| 14 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 15 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 16 | If he is going to have to abandon a dream for the sake of your joint happiness , it 's something you need to talk about . |
| 17 | After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King . |
| 18 | She was very distressed and embarrassed by the March , 1992 , report which said that having agreed to attend a gala for the blind — with only her expenses to be paid — she had broken her word by demanding a fee only two days before the event . |
| 19 | She must have had to pay a bit for that . |
| 20 | When the owners could no longer cope with the interest payments and pressure of their business , having tried to find a buyer for two years , they decided simply to close up . |
| 21 | If you use STOP to exit a program for debugging , CLOSE all the data files before RUNning the program again . |
| 22 | A former officer in the so-called pink Panther Brigade under Rifat Assad , he held a master 's degree from the University of Kiev and , as Coleman quickly discovered , worked harder than anybody because he was desperate to get to America and Hurley kept promising to get a visa for him if he made himself useful . |
| 23 | Yet if we are going to approach language as isolated artificially constructed sentences , even if only occasionally and for limited purposes , we do need to make a case for this , and not just do it because that is the tradition : in the mother tongue classroom , for the foreign language learner , or in linguistics . |
| 24 | Yes , I expect you did have to give a lot for your house . |
| 25 | You do seem to have a propensity for rubbing people up the wrong way . ’ |
| 26 | Up the tree she had decided to make a dash for home as soon as she reached the ground , without giving the witch a chance to grab her , but now she did n't do it . |
| 27 | Dora , kind-hearted even if disapproving , had promised to make a soufflé for dinner , which Alexandra had assured Aunt Emily would be superior to any she had ever tasted before . |
| 28 | Yes , I 've got to post a card for Ruth . |
| 29 | That 's what you 've got to prove a will for , the three hundred thousand pounds has gone to your surviving spouse as a jointly owned property . |
| 30 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |