Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 2 | That 's the sort of colour you want for the top of your is n't it ? |
| 3 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 4 | With her there is another bird which at first and with excitement we take for a king eider , but closer inspection reveals it to be an immature eider drake still paddling along near his mother . |
| 5 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 6 | In mid-battle they break for a bit of a graze . |
| 7 | In fact they pay for the sort of thing they used to skive out of when they were at school . ’ |
| 8 | Unlike most animals , mussels do not expend energy searching for food They wait for the tides and currents to bring it to them . |
| 9 | At night we listen for the sea freezing over . |