Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 2 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
| 3 | Do n't overfeed them to compensate for the fasting stage . |
| 4 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 5 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 6 | Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ? |
| 7 | Speaking in Yemen 's capital , Sana'a , as the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , held talks in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , he warned that Israel 's prime minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whom Mr Christopher is scheduled to meet today , ‘ will only have himself to blame for the crazy escalation of terrorism against our Palestinian people ’ . |
| 8 | Once on the Council , I set out to persuade them to apply for a compulsory purchase order on the site , which could have been done before , of course , if anyone had been single-minded enough about it . |
| 9 | Prior to enrolment at the start of their first year , the University will send to all EC students forms to enable them to apply for a mandatory award . |
| 10 | IF Eugene Kertsman asks you to go for a little jog to keep fit — watch out ! |
| 11 | Project staff will help you to apply for the available grants and carry out practical work . |
| 12 | Taking a series of such courses enables you to qualify for the Professional Certificate in Management , the Professional Diploma in Management or the Master 's in Business Administration ( MBA ) . |
| 13 | So maybe I could tempt you to settle for a mere lifetime with me , Caroline ? ’ |
| 14 | How much extra would it cost you to pay for the free pair of tights ? |
| 15 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 16 | Unfortunately we have had to make some slight changes to the programme today , but hope you will like the idea of all learning something to perform for the final part of the Reunion in November . |
| 17 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |
| 18 | Where , in fact , are we to look for the major effects of the use of computers in humanities research ? |
| 19 | 4-2 the final score … a game to remember … one to treasure for the new manager and the fans |
| 20 | Topper was not one to strive for an imaginative simile when a well-used one came to hand . |
| 21 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 22 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 23 | We must always remember that there is nothing that compels anybody to work for an individual company even in an era of high unemployment . |
| 24 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 25 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 26 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 27 | This led her to search for a continuous tradition which had been activated by occult means and linked the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 28 | It would have been easy for her to pass for a white girl . |
| 29 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 30 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |