Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 2 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 3 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 4 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 5 | Sheep would not safely graze nor would spring lambs nor calves ; the average farmer could hardly be expected to stock them for old times ' sake . |
| 6 | When you open the file , a file handle ( an integer number ) is returned by the interpreter and you will need to store it for future use . |
| 7 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 8 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 9 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 10 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 11 | Welcome back : Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate and urgent action is needed to protect it for future generations . |
| 12 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 13 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 14 | For those nurses relocating from the acute sector to community services , training will be needed to prepare them for new ways of working . |
| 15 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |
| 16 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 17 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 18 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 19 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 20 | There was a rush by speculators to buy the true classics , subject them to extremely expensive rebuilds , and then to attempt to sell them for sky-high prices . |
| 21 | The compensatory award is intended to reimburse you for financial loss resulting from the unfair dismissal . |
| 22 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 23 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 24 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 25 | But you have to leave it for like months . |
| 26 | Some said that their wives did not have ideal looks , but that they had chosen to marry them for other qualities . |