Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 2 | ‘ I pay enough tax on my first job ’ , Mike said , and did n't accept the connection between taxes and help for the unemployed . |
| 3 | A year later a second note was among another smuggled group of notes that arrived for the relatives . |
| 4 | They swarmed on board with the agility of rats and leapt for the defenders . |
| 5 | The BBC , however , is neither the arbiter of morals nor exists for the benefit of a cultural elite . |
| 6 | In seven patients the data had been fabricated ; confrontation was followed in all cases by cessation of symptoms and support for the parent . |
| 7 | It 's like you not painting your house for years and waiting for the glass to fall out of the windows before you start … it 's not the way to do things |
| 8 | And both these books pale before novels that contend for the mantle of Disraeli : those of Jeffrey Archer himself . |
| 9 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 10 | We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example . |
| 11 | There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees . |