Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 a Services Division to support them for a transitional period
2 Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year .
3 If they are purchased through a large department store , the shop will send an expert to fix them for a small extra charge .
4 Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president .
5 I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours .
6 ( Phoebe ) Bradley became the first lady to serve on the Club Committee , an event doubly unique , for although not a bondholder she was elected by their Committee to represent them for a four-year term .
7 Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ .
8 When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ .
9 By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time .
10 If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours .
11 Indeed sometimes this spirit of God comes to specific people to endow them for a particular task .
12 Whatever the meaning for those twelve disciples on that short mission ( and the Spirit may well have come upon them temporarily as he did upon the Old Testament of God to equip them for a special purpose ) , it is hard to mistake the shadow this event casts towards the time of the Church , when men sent out by Jesus ( ‘ sent one' is the root meaning of the word ‘ apostle ’ ) would be equipped by the Spirit given them by Jesus , for carrying out Jesus ' own mission in the world .
13 He chortled as Herr Nordern shuddered , and laughed again as the waitress , a stout fifty year old , brought the beer and refused his offer to take her for a sensuous holiday in Siberia .
14 Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours .
15 In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers .
16 I would advise against choosing a hypnotherapist who is anxious from the outset to charge you for a complete course of treatment .
17 He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep .
18 TO our delight Edinburgh 's own novelist Lucilla Andrews accepted and invitation to visit us for a formal presentation of some signed copies of her books .
19 He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died .
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