Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Hodson phones the Wilton sales office on a Thursday and places his order for the following week . |
| 2 | Central Council records its appreciation for the hard work , dedication and enthusiasm of all staff throughout a very busy and demanding year . |
| 3 | The Duchess of York says her work for the Motor Neurone Disease Association saved her sanity after she was pictured topless on holiday with financial advisor John Bryan . |
| 4 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , to a limited extent , uses his property for the common good , not least in raising Daniel Deronda ; Grandcourt regards his inheritance as the means by which he can indulge his vices . |
| 5 | He smiles broadly as he describes his nomination for the Best Actor award alongside Nick Nolte for Princes of Tides , as ‘ wonderful , fabulous and an honour . |
| 6 | After examination the Council confirms its grant for the previous year which until the accounts are received remains provisional . |
| 7 | I hope he scores a try and if he keeps his place for the Five Nations at my expense , good luck to him . ’ |
| 8 | In a postscript Eliza somewhat enigmatically mentions her pregnancy for the first time : |
| 9 | Hooper is taking nothing for granted as Souness contemplates his line-up for the vital clash , his latest worry being Michael Thomas ' ankle injury which makes him doubtful with Steve McManaman . |
| 10 | Hooper is taking nothing for granted as Souness contemplates his line-up for the vital clash , his latest worry being Michael Thomas ' ankle injury which makes him doubtful with Steve McManaman . |
| 11 | He , rightly in my view , expresses his dislike for the constant advertisements . |
| 12 | Interestingly , in Book VI of The Faerie Queene Sir Calidore , or Courtesy , abandons his quest for the Blatant Beast to experience a pastoral idyll . |
| 13 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 14 | In Britain 's heyday we provided financial subsidies as well ; but though we have retained our fighting abilities , as was demonstrated by the Falklands Campaign , the decline in our resources relative to the superpowers now limits our influence and inhibits our quest for the greatest possible measure of national independence . |
| 15 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |
| 16 | This paper seeks your approval for the revised estimate for the current financial year , nineteen ninety-three , ninety-four , and the for estimates nineteen ninety-four , ninety-five , for the policy commission . |
| 17 | But the administration is far from sure that Western Europe shares its love for the new democracies of the east or its concern for Yugoslavia . |