Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] for a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just like when someone pays for a park bench — they get a little plaque with their name on it , do n't they ? : - ) |
| 2 | If each member of the legislature who votes for a checkerboard compromise does so not because he himself has no principles but because he wants to give the maximum possible effect to the principles he thinks right , then how has anyone behaved irresponsibly ? |
| 3 | This uncertainty about the proper role of litigation by private citizens is also reflected in the requirement that a litigant who applies for a prerogative order must first seek the leave of the court to do so . |
| 4 | Instead , she argues for a socialization theory which sees the individual as ‘ a function of what people around her expect her to be , and what the over-all situation in which she is acting implies that she is ’ ( 1973 : 395 ) . |
| 5 | You know she works for a choir school ? |
| 6 | Well she 's worked she works for a tour operator , she worked for a |
| 7 | Mary , who works for a publishing firm , said last night : ‘ People are speechless when I tell them where they 're calling . |
| 8 | There are times , frankly , when one longs for a video camera . |
| 9 | Buck 's other contacts include an ageing hooker whom he mistakes for a society woman ( ‘ I 'm one gorgeous chick , ’ says the ungorgeous non-chicken Sylvia Miles ) ; two weak and whining homosexual pick-ups ; and a couple of weirdos who invite him to an ‘ underground ’ party . |
| 10 | He reaches for a plastic bag . |
| 11 | The superstar took over the lakeside complex at Snagov as he prepares for a sell-out concert in Bucharest tomorrow . |
| 12 | Under its new chief executive , John Houliston , big changes have been taking place at Dairy Crest as it prepares for a stock market flotation next year . |
| 13 | He keeps calling in till he 's acknowledged , then he asks for a road report . |
| 14 | If he asks for a review board he gets it because there is no provision in the regulations for even the Secretary of State to refuse such a request . |
| 15 | — ROBERT Wright will bank on keeping the adrenalin flowing when he bids for a Commonwealth welterweight title upset at London 's Grosvenor House Hotel tomorrow . |
| 16 | He works for a development agency and two of his brothers were killed by Marcos so although he claims to be the least revolutionary of the family , he is fairly well into the issues . |
| 17 | He works for a motor accessory shop now . |
| 18 | For future reference , Gioachino says the only place for real lunch is Chateau Branlant on what passes for a nursery slope at Plan Checrouit . |