Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A compromise on this issue , they wrote , would damage all that the French Republic has stood for since the Revolution . |
| 2 | The Thatcher administration , on the other hand , ‘ do not believe that the community as a whole should continue to pay for all sorts of things that it has paid for in the past … |
| 3 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 4 | er We 've got some very disturbed children in Oxfordshire who need all sorts of help , which do n't necessarily get provided for at the moment . |
| 5 | In February 1855 Moscow 's gentry assembly chose the retired liberal general , A. P. Ermolov ( one-time ruler of the Caucasus ) , to raise the supplementary armed forces which Nicholas had called for at the end of the previous month . |
| 6 | The Soviets obtained what they had hoped for since the war : an agreement that European borders should be changed only by peaceful means , which in effect recognised the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | Bollards as we 've asked for across the frontage as well , and the back . |
| 8 | The terror of leaving the tot you have cared for round the clock in the hands of a virtual stranger can be more daunting than the birth itself . |
| 9 | Oh Charlotte 's trying to lean against him and push him out , no he 's settled for under the table now , now leave him Charlotte he can lay under the table , he 's out the way over there |