Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 3 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 4 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 5 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 6 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 7 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 8 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 9 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 10 | If you 've neglected your legs during the winter and are planning to get them out for some spring sunshine then check out the new Stripwax from Jolen , £3.95 for 36 strips . |
| 11 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 12 | To have it in er Daily Post , The Post is the morning one The Echo 's the evening to have it in for one day in The Post and The Echo , how much ? |
| 13 | However , delegates from the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) failed to endorse the resolutions which had been hammered out in hours of debate and decided instead to take them back for further discussions by its supporters . |
| 14 | Claudia stared at him blankly , unable to take it in for several minutes , and when she did she cried out and launched herself at him , her hands raised . |
| 15 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |