Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 3 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
| 4 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 5 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 6 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 7 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 8 | Soviet citizens were given three days to exchange them for lower-denomination notes . |
| 9 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 10 | 1979 , 1982 ) , not only do stags that hold large harems hold them for longer within particular breeding seasons than those which hold smaller harems ( Fig. 23. 1a ) , but individuals that are consistently successful in securing large harems throughout their lives tend to live longer than their less successful competitors ( Fig. 23.1b ) . |
| 11 | Lot number twenty twenty is a quantity of stands there we are , we 've got a sample showing for you just a sample showing fifty for the lot the whole lot there for fifty pounds at fifty pounds want them for fifty pounds thank you sir , fifty pounds I 've got , at fifty five going on fifty five , sixty pounds , sixty five coming in sir ? |
| 12 | Heated debate over the dam project took place during the 15-day NPC session , with many delegates opposing it for environmental and financial reasons . |
| 13 | Drugs are expensive in primary care , not normally because of the unit cost , but because many patients take them for many years . |
| 14 | By all means prosecute them for that . |
| 15 | The CF 1 is for those who prefer a closed face reel — personally I only use one on canals when squatt fishing , but I know a lot of good anglers prefer them for all float fishing . |
| 16 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 17 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 18 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 19 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 20 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 21 | Aquatic birds that spend much of their time in water , well insulated by fat and waterproof plumage ( Figure 6.1 ) , are pre-adapted for life in cold lands ; the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas pre-adapts them for polar seas . |
| 22 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 23 | have managers been made adequately aware of the potential of the system and given help to use it for strategic and management control decision making ? |
| 24 | ‘ You and your bloody mates fingered me for those three other burglaries . |
| 25 | Two reasons strike me for this . |
| 26 | Petal DK , a long established yarn in 100g balls with a lustre effect has four new designs to support it for 1992 . |
| 27 | The four tapes sold them for fifteen pounds in |
| 28 | And he 's given us certain gifts to enable us for this to happen in our lives . |
| 29 | that 's still not it as much as er Robert Maxwell lost and seem , ca , see the Labour party nailing him for that , no you do n't because he was a head of a Labour party paper |
| 30 | The whole field left me for dead . |