Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 2 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 3 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 4 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 5 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 6 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 7 | Cos I 've got to finish it for the morning . |
| 8 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 9 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 10 | Also I 've got to get something for the boys ' dinner first … |
| 11 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the BBC photographer had arrived to photograph me for the Radio Times . |
| 13 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 14 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 15 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 16 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |