Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 2 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 3 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 4 | I admired George for the care and attention he gave to Lennie . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone is tipping Arsenal for the title and they have the best drilled team with some exciting strikers in Ian Wright , Paul Merson , Kevin Campbell and Anders Limpar , ’ said Waddle . |
| 6 | Herr Genscher proposed a number of joint German-US measures , including blaming Serbia for the fighting and suspending its membership of the CSCE . |
| 7 | Gorbachev eventually proved willing not only to condemn Stalin for the imprisonment and execution of loyal Russians in the 1930s , but also to concede that Stalin had secretly divided eastern Europe with Hitler in 1939 . |
| 8 | Mother-of-three Miss Campbell , who has been married twice , decorated Sunninghill for the Duke and Duchess of York 's marriage and did Romenda Lodge for the Duchess after they separated . |
| 9 | Wendy , very kindly , checked Billy 's carriage on her own machine when it was giving trouble and when , rather embarrassingly , it blew a fuse on Wendy 's console , she did n't even charge Billy for the replacement and repairs . |
| 10 | She called the Diocesan Office of Special Religious Education to request help in preparing Todd for the Sacrament and mentioned the chaplain 's reluctance to give Communion because of Todd 's lack of verbal ability . |
| 11 | Thank God for the work that S C F is doing there , his only hope through counselling , of being able to regain any form of normality . |
| 12 | In Whit Week 1850 over 200,000 day-trippers left Manchester for the countryside and the sea . |
| 13 | Zambia , however , trying to compensate for whatever information they 'd picked up about hir , offered to entertain Nathan for the afternoon so that Roirbak could begin work with Ari . |
| 14 | To acknowledge that she could not and never would ask Maggie for the mothering that she would give to her own mother . |
| 15 | Queen Elizabeth of England was visiting Amsterdam for the William and Mary celebrations — three-hundred years of English-Dutch friendship — so us Dutch queens planned our own reception for her . |
| 16 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |