Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 2 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 3 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 4 | This way she can guarantee her customers that they will have all the surrounding thousands of acres of bush totally to themselves for the duration of their stay . |
| 5 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 6 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 7 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 8 | Lewis knew very well he should not do this , that he was sucking up to someone for the sake of inheriting his property . |
| 9 | They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’ |
| 10 | They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’ |
| 11 | An and find out as much as possible an and then erm try and get on to something for the year after . |
| 12 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |