Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 2 | Mr. Collins 's letter to my constituent , which is extremely clear , states : ’ In the case of the rail link , there would have been no proposal to build a terminal , were it not for the need to provide one for the Channel Tunnel rail link . |
| 3 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 4 | I permit the incidents of the past to haunt me for just seven days of each year . |
| 5 | Following the demise of current cost accounting in the private sector and the apparent determination of the Treasury to retain it for nationalized industries , the fact that Byatt strongly endorsed its retention in the public sector is important , particularly from the policy-making perspective . |
| 6 | Howard 's huge drive and Mark 's incredibly difficult 3-iron from the edge of the bunker sealed it for us . |
| 7 | The King had settled himself into such a groove of petulant determination that there was no question of the rejection of the bargain deflecting him for even a few days . |
| 8 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 9 | Flick knives have caused problems when trying to decide whether they are offensive weapons by themselves ( with out having to prove the intent of the possessor to use them for causing injury ) . |
| 10 | And Carolyn Dalzell , 18 , claims her landlord has thrown her out of the house blaming her for the fire . |
| 11 | However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully . |
| 12 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 13 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 14 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 15 | The best plan was therefore to study a few typical ones : T. H. Huxley 's course on the crayfish at South Kensington in the 1870s was based on this principle , close study of a crayfish preparing one for any invertebrate . |
| 16 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 17 | Chauveau added : ‘ I know Peterborough are very upset about it but it does n't change the fact that one moron behind the goal ruined it for everybody . ’ |
| 18 | He says : we 're looking for a millionaire to buy it for his wife as the ideal shopping car . |
| 19 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 20 | Air is introduced into the stomach to distend it for easier visualisation . |
| 21 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 22 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 23 | He sent a copy to Hall , with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition . |
| 24 | Here she was with an opportunity to do something for her mother , something she had always dreamed of doing , and she would have to refuse . |
| 25 | I would advise against choosing a hypnotherapist who is anxious from the outset to charge you for a complete course of treatment . |
| 26 | Fencing for Nursery Playgroup A letter has been received from the playgroup thanking us for the provision of the fence . |
| 27 | Fencing for Nursery Playgroup A letter has been received from the playgroup thanking us for the provision of the fence . |
| 28 | We must go in the shop in the Pinge to buy something for my bunny . |
| 29 | The old cow at the counter popped them in the microwave to warm them for him . |
| 30 | In the urge to protect itself for the negative battles of the present , the party thus pulled back from its only truly positive policy for the future . |