Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Anselm had another reason for action : the procedure he had started eighteen months earlier for excommunicating the king if he did not return the lands and revenues of the archbishopric was drawing to its end . |
| 2 | A RAPIST was jailed for seven years yesterday for causing the death of a pensioner . |
| 3 | Anyway , Dadda owed him a day off for working the Spring Holiday Monday to get those Chippendale chair seats done . |
| 4 | ALEX HIGGINS escaped suspension but was fined £3,000 yesterday for bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 5 | They 'd delight in things like withholding the mail , or telling the cook off for making the food look too attractive or for giving people too much . |
| 6 | A lot of clothes just for crossing the farmyard on a warm autumn night . |
| 7 | For the majority , an increasing casualness caused a crisis in the tie industry as young men discarded the item worn by their fathers even for digging the garden or carving the Sunday roast ; the latter simultaneously appearing on the endangered species list too , but as victim of inflation rather than fashion . |