Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 2 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 3 | I yearn for the love and affection I once had , ’ she cried passionately . |
| 4 | I look for the dog or the jogging suit and if they have n't got a dog or a jogging suit I think what are they up to ? |
| 5 | I paid for the petrol and the mints , and the young chap said : ‘ It 's Geoffrey Boycott sat in that car , is n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | I paid for the taxi because he had no change . |
| 7 | Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living . |
| 8 | I raced for the door and high-kneed it through the trees . |
| 9 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 10 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 11 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 12 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 13 | I apologize for the fact that delays in obtaining some of the necessary information have made it impossible to produce detailed cost estimates , but the considerations listed below should enable us to determine whether such a change would be worthwhile . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've nothing to add except to say that I 'm surprised no one 's tried to squeeze more out of me since and I apologize for the fact that there 's only one chair here so I ca n't ask you to sit down . ’ |
| 15 | He just ca n't put it forward , so you have to get a book and do it yourself , and then I ask for the syllabus so I can make sure |
| 16 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 17 | I went for the day and I saw Christopher Reed superman . |
| 18 | Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either . |
| 19 | It 's fairly readable , I think for the non-forester as well as being fairly technical of course as well . |
| 20 | How many charter marks do I get for the notion that The Servant of Two Masters is worth doing ? |
| 21 | Asked by an exit pollster which way he had cast his vote , he replied : ‘ I voted for the party that is going to run the country for the next five years . ’ |
| 22 | Ricardo shows great patience with me as I reach for the dictionary or , using a book and his long fingers , he makes the rituals clear to me . |
| 23 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 24 | There is a richness of musical resources — many previously unavailable to a mass audience — and an excitement about new technological possibilities , new social relations and new kinds of musical behaviour which account for the fact that cultural struggle could take place here within musical production itself . |
| 25 | A supervision order will cease to have effect if certain steps are taken or orders made under s25(1) ( a ) or ( b ) of the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 which provide for the recognition and enforcement of foreign custody orders . |
| 26 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 27 | Imaginative and incalculable youth , which clamours for the moon and may not be content till it has damaged most of the street lamps . ’ |
| 28 | The rest of the budget is allocated in two parts : that which pays for the hospital and community services — three-quarters of the total — and the remainder , which goes to the family practitioner services — the GP , the dentists , the opticians and the cost of drugs dispensed by GPs . |
| 29 | The requirement for a research perspective which this necessarily entails , the relating of abstraction to actuality , the use of technique to realize principle , and indeed the whole process of self-monitoring , presupposes attitudes and abilities which call for the education and not just the training of teachers . |
| 30 | The Deputy Under Secretary had no one but himself to blame for the irritation that his starched collar created just below the line of his neatly cut hair . |