Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With something like two-thirds of the whole French Army to pass along it bound for the dreadful Calvary of Verdun , the title Maurice Barres coined for it was hardly a profanity : the Voie Sacrée . |
| 2 | I held it while a hand moved over me checking for the hardware . |
| 3 | Rig the rules to prevent minority candidates getting nominated , because there 's no room for the Campaign Group left even to be heavily defeated in what passes for a free election in the new model Labour Party . |
| 4 | You would have forfeited Tracy Castle immediately , and ‘ t would have been granted to me to hold for the King . |
| 5 | Many elderly people do this each year if it is not suitable for them to go away with their family , and they understand the need those who are caring for them have for a complete break . |
| 6 | I mean they 're paying for us to go for a meal you ca n't go dressed like |
| 7 | It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one . |
| 8 | Corporal punishment amounts to anything done for the purposes of punishing the pupil , whether or not there ire other reasons for doing it , which would amount to a battery . |
| 9 | And help was forthcoming , for there was a whole row of somehow familiar books , and the name on the back , she could just decipher it , was Candida something , why yes , of course , Candida Gray , she saw it with a flash of inspiration , for it had never occurred to her to look for a surname other than the one that she already knew . |
| 10 | Schwabe arranged for him to work for the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding firm of J. & G. Thomson , who were building ships for Bibby . |
| 11 | The theatrical man occasionally glanced towards him looking for an opening ; but he did n't let himself be drawn in . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Sounds like it calls for a trip up there . ’ |
| 13 | An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic , and systematically packed with everything needed for a month 's holiday . |
| 14 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 15 | They said if we did n't consent for him to claim for the two of us , they 'd summons me and him for aiding and abetting . |
| 16 | When turning the ends to be jointed , it is worth having a piece of scrap wood on hand with the appropriate holes bored into it to check for a snug fit . |
| 17 | Let her come to me begging for a haircut . |
| 18 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 19 | No town was too small , no theatre or hall to humble for her to dance for the people . |
| 20 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 21 | He has obligations not merely to the students who come to him to read for a degree , but still more towards the teeming population outside the University walls , most of whom have not so much as " heard whether there be any Holy Ghost " . |
| 22 | Perhaps her mother would agree to her returning for a while to Framlingham … |