Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 2 | Even more , she had been quite ready to apologize for the public exhibition she had made of herself , and to ask his forgiveness . |
| 3 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 4 | Seven orders have been received for the new jet which will have a 3,600-mile range . |
| 5 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 6 | You must be punished for the wicked thing you did ’ ( The Times , 15 September 1991 ) . |
| 7 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 8 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 9 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 10 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 11 | A new method has been developed for the current project which attempts to provide a much simplified morphological system with little increase in the storage requirements and remove the errors permitted by the affix-stripping methods . |
| 12 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 13 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 14 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 15 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 16 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 17 | It is not impossible , too , that an overarching agency with responsibility for quality assurance will eventually be established to perform for the whole system something of the role performed by the Council for National Academic Awards for the public sector . |
| 18 | Their own consensual efforts to deny and suppress them would then be exposed for the deceitful sham they have always been . |
| 19 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 20 | Designed for the normal runner who wants a light responsive training shoe , or for the heavier runner who wants a shoe for running marathons , the Concorde has Reebok 's exclusive ‘ Hexalite ’ cushioning system in the heel and forefoot . |
| 21 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 22 | If the adoption goes ahead , it will be a fairy tale ending for the little girl whose winning smile and sunny personality stole the heart of a hardbitten war reporter . |
| 23 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 24 | I said that unless I was picked for the final leg I would n't run . |
| 25 | Another , less known , effect of the tail rotor is that it requires a lateral cyclic trim offset to compensate for the sideways push which it applies ( Fig. 5.10 ) . |
| 26 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 27 | Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides . |
| 28 | All our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide within their grade . |
| 29 | ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals . |
| 30 | ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals . |