Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 2 | Finally , since all too many non-payers were simply ’ wo n't payers ’ , sponging on the rest , I hope that we will provide all the powers necessary to ensure that never again are my constituents expected to pay for the law breakers . |
| 3 | ‘ I had medals my father won fighting for the resistance in the Second World War and pictures of my late husband and my mother . |
| 4 | My mother helped to cater for the funeral tea , which were community affairs with everyone helping . |
| 5 | Such prodigies were invariably pupils of the three most prominent schools of the area — Queen 's , Dale and Selborne — whose monumental inter-school rivalries were temporarily suspended when their products did service for the province . |
| 6 | Her paws kept reaching for the ground , but it was not there . |
| 7 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 8 | Her lawyers had asked for the sentence to be dropped in favour of community service because her health is failing . |
| 9 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 10 | But health officials in the Darlington and the Northallerton health authorities said their budgets had allowed for the pay rises . |
| 11 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 12 | He was the product of an actual family experience ; his father had fought for the South in the Civil War and there had been some decline from gentility , but he was as much a product of family myth . |
| 13 | The I R A said they killed John Gibson because his company did work for the security services . |
| 14 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 15 | Would it be worth your while to consider sending for the chairman not only of the 1922 committee but also of the parliamentary Labour party so that the leaders of the respective parties in Parliament can discuss with you the conduct last night ? |
| 16 | Suppose I suggest to you that we stop part of your wages to help pay for the damage to the china and to Mrs Darrell 's dignity , and you promise to be good in future ? ’ |