Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 2 | In the bedroom I get changed for work . |
| 3 | I found a pattern of hers , jacket in white in that bag what for a cardigan I wanted to do for school |
| 4 | Should the need arise , the two channels can be slaved together , so that the signal passing through Channel 2 is actually controlled by the parameters you have set for Channel 1 . |
| 5 | Books you 've read for pleasure . |
| 6 | The initiative foundered and Lorna , who has always had a talent for design , remembered an advert she had seen for Colour Counsellors . |
| 7 | But in the short-term AS-levels are the only instrument we 've got for change . ’ |
| 8 | For Wilson , Sting 's success , and the prodigious royalties it had earned for Virgin , was merely one feather in an increasingly crowded cap . |
| 9 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 10 | Since last April , instead of having tax deducted at source from all accounts , we now have about 12.5m accounts which have registered for interest to be paid gross . |
| 11 | She straightened the long limbs and pressed the strands of black cotton she had used for hair more firmly into the scalp . |
| 12 | They snatched them from my hands while the boy who had asked for bread asked again . |
| 13 | I refer to your fax of 16 February 1993 concerning the return you have received for completion from the Local Government Chronicle . |
| 14 | ’ Information on the private housing arrangements or plans of those Army personnel who have applied for redundancy is not held by the Ministry of Defence . ’ |
| 15 | They also include the rights of beneficiaries when any fiduciary owner is the registered proprietor ; the rights and interest of a buyer who has asked for registration of title in the name of a nominee ; and the right of a buyer whose contract has not been registered on the seller 's title . |
| 16 | He declared ( 24 December 1956 ) : ‘ For 37 years I have worked for unity . |
| 17 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , thank goodness you had to stop for breath . |
| 19 | Stephen Day , Guinness marketing manager for Kaliber , who witnessed Smithwick 's demise , admits : ‘ Ale drinkers tend to be older and more settled in their habits than the new young trialists who tend to go for lager , so it was more difficult to persuade them . |
| 20 | In working trials , there are a number of dogs who have qualified for CD and CDX , TD1 , TD2 . |
| 21 | When it was born rationing was a part of everyday life and people queued quietly for health care just as in the war they had queued for food . |
| 22 | On using the straws they often note and comment on the matchings they have made for colour and/or size . |
| 23 | The wine he had taken for lunch , together with the oppressive afternoon heat , had quite tired him out . |
| 24 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 25 | Note the key points and questions you wish to raise for discussion . |
| 26 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 27 | But if you quite like sleeping with the offending partner for other reasons , you 'll need earplugs , a light where it disturbs nobody and a good book till the warm drink you 've made for consolation lulls you back to the Land of Nod — pending the next onslaught . |
| 28 | A person who has applied for life assurance , but who does not wish to have the test after being asked to do so , should write withdrawing their life assurance application at once , because otherwise it will be refused . |
| 29 | Until recently , diesel cars were slow and very noisy , the theory being that this was the price you had to pay for economy . |
| 30 | It 's part of the price you do pay for democracy . |