Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] for [art] " 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 | Pupils at Grange Primary School in Hartlepool have collected a huge amount of toothbrushes and toothpaste for an orphanage in Romania . |
| 5 | They swarmed on board with the agility of rats and leapt for the defenders . |
| 6 | of your block of flats and wait for a sign . |
| 7 | In the present chapter , both of these assumptions will be criticized in a variety of ways and rejected for a variety of reasons . |
| 8 | The BBC , however , is neither the arbiter of morals nor exists for the benefit of a cultural elite . |
| 9 | Other locals , not directly involved with the gangs , but basking in the glory and the protection bought rounds of drinks or waited for a chance to join in the conversation . |
| 10 | In seven patients the data had been fabricated ; confrontation was followed in all cases by cessation of symptoms and support for the parent . |
| 11 | Standard Condition 2.2 now deals with the payment of deposits and provides for a 10% deposit to be taken . |
| 12 | Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ? |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Like plants that jostle for a bare minimum of soil and light , human beings would eventually fill all the available territory , he warned . |
| 15 | 5 Roll teaspoons of the petit four mixture into balls and leave for a while to set . |
| 16 | Nestling peacefully amongst the mine sweepers and patrol vessels in Albert Dock was the P&O Thames sailing barge , Will , dressed overall with flags and used for a variety of on board functions during her stay . |
| 17 | confirming their readiness to reinforce security , in particular by adopting effective arms control , disarmament and confidence-building measures ; their willingness not to regard each another as adversaries but to work for a relationship of trust and co-operation ; and accordingly their readiness to consider positively the setting up of appropriate institutional arrangements within the framework of the CSCE ; |
| 18 | The problem is that , for example , the nitrogen in blood can become available to plants in days and continue for a week or two , whereas the phosphate in bone can not possibly become available for several months . |
| 19 | It is also observed in procedures that control for a possible contribution from direct associations between the context and the US . |
| 20 | And both these books pale before novels that contend for the mantle of Disraeli : those of Jeffrey Archer himself . |
| 21 | You cos you know Bonnie yeah , sh she erm got offered a er job in Glitters in Camden yeah it 's a shop in Camden , and sh she told Honey and Dan about it yeah and the next thing she knows yeah like the next day , she 's talking to Dan and Honey and Honey comes out and says oh I went down to Glitters and asked for a job right said right to Honey 's face I mean Bonnie 's face . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He landed eventually at Stabiae ( near the present Castellammare ) , where things were still fairly tolerable , and there he encountered a friend of his , one Pomponianus , who was making frantic preparations to escape , loading his possessions on to ships and fretting for a favourable wind so that he could put to sea . |
| 26 | It might seem a smaller risk to stick to stores and wait for a retailing boom to return . |
| 27 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
| 28 | Often written by women and intended for a female readership , the novels are characterized by a blend of sentiment and sensationalism with elements of the fashionable Gothic ; a number of them were translations from the French . |