Example sentences of "[pron] for [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 2 | Until , that is , he realises what he has done , and feels cross with himself for walking into an emotional trap of his own unconscious devising . |
| 3 | Thank you for caring about a useless old man . ’ |
| 4 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 5 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 6 | You can forgive him for relaxing to a 69 . |
| 7 | A POLICEMAN dived into a canal to pull a driver from his crashed car — then booked him for going through a red light . |
| 8 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 9 | Even in the best hotels they tended to view whisky as a kind of pastis and served it for drinking in the French way . |
| 10 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 11 | In this case , a sequence of tasks ( possibly the complete analysis ) is presented to the machine which then detaches the job from the user 's control and queues it for running at a convenient time — perhaps overnight — the full results being returned to the user thereafter . |