Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 2 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 3 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 4 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 5 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 6 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 7 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 8 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 9 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 10 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 12 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 13 | The idea for this one was proposed in 1981 , specifically to boost the early evening weekday audience and help to build it for the rest of the evening . |
| 14 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 15 | So a £4 billion industry can use the product of a £250m one and need pay nothing for the privilege . |
| 16 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |
| 17 | You do not need to dip into this money at regular intervals , but wish to retain it for the future . |
| 18 | I have therefore not attempted to consider that point , but have assumed it for the purposes of this judgment … |
| 19 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |