Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the daughter 's silence on this matter is a measure of the price you have to pay for survival . |
| 32 | The next day we began to look for work . |
| 33 | The pink tubes feeding her nose became redundant as the heart stopped pumping , Rose 's blood left her face , and Lee herself started gasping for breath . |
| 34 | Commuters are calculating the price they have to pay for comfort and punctuality . |
| 35 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 36 | When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad . |
| 37 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 38 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 39 | In the morning I went to look for Heathcliff . |
| 40 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 41 | We would like you to use your expectations and the resultant negotiations as a basis for stating some of the objectives you hope to use for direction in your marriage . |
| 42 | He always pitied people who had to ask for information . |
| 43 | Of those people who had volunteered for redundancy , 49 per cent . |
| 44 | As there was little or no advance warning , those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed . |
| 45 | And people who had bought their most recent non-routine purchase on credit — especially on HP or mail order — tended to worry more about money than people who had bought for cash . |
| 46 | She could use the sugar she 'd got for building bricks for a new shed I reckon , the amount she 'd got there . |
| 47 | But the breath she 'd drawn for speech was expelled in a sigh of frustration . |
| 48 | High Anglican architects such as William Butterfield ( 1814–1900 ) and George Edmund Street ( 1824–81 ) took up these ideas and produced a series of parish schools which combine simple planning and construction with details they had developed for church architecture . |
| 49 | WIMBLEDON 'S Crazy Gang are returning to Plough Lane , the happy hunting ground they had to leave for safety reasons two years ago . |
| 50 | Again , the dual imagery of the victorious general and the holy saviour appeared : virtually everyone wore full military or party uniform , and the steps up to the basilica of Saint Barbara were lined with people carrying the palms they had bought for Palm Sunday , six weeks earlier . |
| 51 | Right , thanks the , some of the names they 've got for food . |
| 52 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 53 | It was like stepping from the main street into a cobbled alley 's curiosity shop — that shock of surprise to discover again what an intricate and peculiar organ the imagination is , what extravagant uses it has found for time . |
| 54 | He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship . |
| 55 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 56 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
| 57 | ‘ You must not think , ’ gently said the man who had married for love in his late twenties , ‘ that the king has always reasons of cold policy for what he does . |
| 58 | She could send him a proof of the article on the Holocaust she had written for Fem Sap . |
| 59 | ‘ I 've finished , Egbert , ’ announced Edith unnecessarily , sweeping back into the room swathed in the huge purple dressing gown she had bought for decorousness lest she be passed in the corridor on the way to the bathroom . |
| 60 | You wan na see the games they 've got for sale in London at Christmas and I have n't . |