Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 2 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 3 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 4 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 5 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 6 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 7 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 8 | Please help us preserve it for the future generations . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 10 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 11 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 12 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 13 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 14 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 15 | If I present my ideas in writing , my father marks them for the appropriate offices … |
| 16 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 17 | It makes a firmer fabric than an every needle rib , makes a double jacquard pattern shorter and truer to the actual pattern and , also , you can use it for the plain rows instead of the ‘ striper ’ card if you like the texture . |
| 18 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 19 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 20 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 21 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 22 | Reverse it for the bottom lashes — look up in to the mirror about your forehead . |
| 23 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 24 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 25 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 26 | Use it for the darker colours ; the permanency of the pigments is not affected by the minerals in the water . |
| 27 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 28 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 29 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 30 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |