Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset the number was eight , but this resulted in a slow turnover between measurements , and after some early trials the number was reduced to two , with the intention of raising it again for serious measurements if the results were encouraging . |
| 2 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 3 | If we can sort of get them out for a night or even if they get back at twelve . |
| 4 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 5 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 6 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 7 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 8 | The prospect of setting yourself up for this job is far more daunting than the actual work , and once you have overcome the inertia of thinking it out and making a start , the results more than justify the effort . |
| 9 | He had actually taken the trouble of ruling them out for all his business contacts as well . |
| 10 | The shortage of labour forced the landowners to change their methods of exploiting their estates , most obviously in the abandonment of direct cultivation of the demesne by the lord 's paid men in favour of leasing it out for a cash rent . |
| 11 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 12 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 13 | Was this his way of paying her back for trying to sneak Kirsty down to London ? |
| 14 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 15 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |