Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 3 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 4 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 5 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 6 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 7 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 8 | I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘ |
| 9 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 10 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 12 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 13 | Call the dog to you , and encourage it to walk with you for a distance before repeating the process . |
| 14 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 15 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 16 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 17 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 18 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 19 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 20 | Paul Young shared his taxi with Nigel Dempsey and Christopher MacPherson but when they arrived in Hemlington , Middlesbrough , Mr Young was invited to go with them for a drink . |
| 21 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 22 | IN this chapter I want to search with you for the spirit of place , to conjure up the spirit that will give life and breath to descriptions of places . |
| 23 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 24 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 25 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 26 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 27 | I told him I had learnt how to fight against him for a start . |
| 28 | Well , if , if there is n't anybody else who wishes to compete with you for the Chair , er , then I think there ought to be a Vice Chair . |
| 29 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
| 30 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |