Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 32 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 33 | Tennis players are notoriously bad in preparing themselves for the season — and especially the ‘ off ’ season . |
| 34 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 35 | With a sense of impending doom heavy on her shoulders , she went up to their shared suite to have a long , relaxing shower before preparing herself for the fireworks that would inevitably , as night overtook day , follow . |
| 36 | She said summat about taking him for a picnic . |
| 37 | Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals . |
| 38 | We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’ |
| 39 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 40 | Over the years various attempts will have been made to insulate houses like these , but these are unlikely to match modern standards , and it will pay you to check out your existing level of insulation , with a view to improving it for the future . |
| 41 | And it 's possible that the curious telephone conversation in the flat , with its reference to postponing something for a week , related to your time limit . |
| 42 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 43 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 44 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 45 | Next , surely , he must have thought he was up against a demon intent on destroying him for no reason at all . |
| 46 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 47 | When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time . |
| 48 | He sounded depressed by the thought , but then cheered himself up by asking me for a beer . |
| 49 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 50 | ‘ By asking you for the answer . |
| 51 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 52 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 53 | ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels . |
| 54 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 55 | Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program . |
| 56 | By nominating you for a building society mortgage under the Support Lending Scheme which is designed to help first-time buyers . |
| 57 | Hopefully , however , there will be plenty of others sailing , and you can learn a lot by watching them for a while . |
| 58 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 59 | They 've economised by reducing it for the handout . |
| 60 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |