Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 2 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 3 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 4 | He did n't know when he 'd be back and she should cancel everything for the next several days . |
| 5 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 6 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 7 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 8 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 9 | Oh and I 'll have one for the last card . |
| 10 | After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’ |
| 11 | But I 'll pay you for the two lots of coffee . |
| 12 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 13 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 14 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 15 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 16 | So let's hear it for the greatest tennis player in the world ! |
| 17 | We shall need it for the forty foots . |
| 18 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 19 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 20 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 21 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 22 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |
| 23 | I support the intention of the Bill and its important deterrent aspects , and I shall support it for the same reason as the hon. Member for Oxford , East , but I must confess that I do so with some reluctance at this stage . |
| 24 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
| 25 | As beautiful and as wholesome as you may be on the outside , I shall reveal you for the black-hearted trickster that you are . |
| 26 | I shall ask him for the latest joke at the gates of heaven , . ’ |
| 27 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 28 | In complete contrast , nothing will prepare you for the jaw-dropping experience of taking the desert road out of the city for the first time . |
| 29 | Runner-up River Falls , beaten a head , and his stablemate Swing Low , third , are both in the 2,000 Guineas but Richard Hannon will send one for the Italian version . |
| 30 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |