Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [pron] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most serious offences are ‘ triable on indictment only ’ , which means that the magistrates ' courts must commit them for trial to the Crown Court . |
| 2 | Pat might want it for storage you see . |
| 3 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |
| 4 | Jorge will take you for film , ’ he added . |
| 5 | Crime ‘ We 've spent thousands on the project and every Kray fan will want one for Christmas . |
| 6 | Government plans to restructure the police force will do nothing for morale , and will not improve the service according to the Scottish Police Federation . |
| 7 | ‘ Some folk will do anything for money , money makes many a man into a fool or a villain . ’ |
| 8 | If he unjustifiably rejects them , the seller may sue him for damages for non-acceptance or , possibly , will have an action for the price ( see paragraph 13–05 and Chapter 12 ) . |
| 9 | The vid team will record it for posterity . ’ |
| 10 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 11 | Similarly , those who hoped that the more flexible regulations would qualify them for grant well in excess of the traditional 75% were doomed to disappointment . |
| 12 | ‘ if a magistrates ' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices is of opinion , on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused , that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on trial by jury for any indictable offence , the court shall commit him for trial ; and , if it is not of that opinion , it shall … discharge him . |
| 13 | I looked and I looked ; but while I saw similarities ( the forehead , the set of the eyes ) , while I could understand that other people might take them for mother and daughter , it did n't work for me . |
| 14 | A few centres might use them for lake paddling , it was thought , but the serious river paddler would never buy them . |
| 15 | The Sergeants would take us for training sessions and escort us over to our meals , but it was the Corporals who governed our lives . |
| 16 | How people can drink it for pleasure I do n't know . |
| 17 | First , there is the issue of the mandatory reselection of MPs the idea that all sitting Labour Members should submit themselves for reselection by the local party at least once during the lifetime of each Parliament . |
| 18 | Stonehenge was for sale : The government could have it for £125000 ; failing that , Sir Edmund was open to offers , from a showman perhaps , or an advertising contractor ( ’ The Pear 's Soap Stone ’ ? ) , or an American who would ship it away to the United States . |
| 19 | It 's a folly that was built by the Earl and Countess of Coventry so all their friends could see it for miles around . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's another kind of acoustic string we make , one my father used to make under the D'Arco name before he sold the company to Martin , and that 's a semi-polished acoustic string , halfway between a round-wound and a flat-wound ; a lot of the old archtop guitar players used to use them for recording . |
| 21 | The pet shop where his grandad had bought him his hamster called Hammer and his goldfish called Sickle and where his nan used to take them for resurrection when they died . |
| 22 | The current holder of the bill will present it for payment and all being well receive the full value . |
| 23 | ‘ Londoners will drink it for breakfast , wo n't they ? |
| 24 | It does n't just focus on giving birth in a pool , but looks at how swimming and water exercises can prepare you for labour , and how water can help you and your baby in the bonding process . |
| 25 | Sun Microsystems Inc says that henceforward it will ship a microphone with every Sparcstation desktop workstation : the machine already includes built-in speaker and bundled software for easily playing , recording and receiving audio ; existing users can have it for $30 . |
| 26 | If you order goods as a private individual from mail order advertisements in this magazine and pay by post in advance of delivery , What Personal Computer will consider you for compensation if the advertiser should become subject to bankruptcy or go into liquidation . |
| 27 | If you order goods as a private individual from mail order advertisements in this magazine and pay by post in advance of delivery , What Personal Computer will consider you for compensation if the advertiser should become subject to bankruptcy proceedings or go into liquidation . |
| 28 | Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present . |
| 29 | But the main thrust of Olson 's argument is unaffected , and it ca n't be set aside : this great American poet ( and Olson knows that Pound is all of that ) was a Fascist , profoundly , and no amount of talk about his affinities with Whitman will save him for democracy , nor will any attempt to treat his anti-Semitism as an unrelated pathological aberration . |
| 30 | ‘ Fergie has made a big mistake and I 'm sure the decision will haunt him for years to come . ’ |