Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got an old Coricidin bottle I keep for the Firebird , and I 've got a beautiful one that I keep specially for ballads ; it 's a really nice hand-blown glass slide , very dense and very smooth , and it 's great for recording subtle kinds of parts on acoustic guitar . ’ |
| 2 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 3 | She calls the photographs ‘ snapshots ’ , unpretentious statements of courage that she tried unsuccessfully for years to sell ( they sell well now ) . |
| 4 | Well , the statistics that you gave earlier for example , that erm was it forty two per cent of students perceive themselves to have been sexually harassed , or I think fifty per cent of students perceive themselves to have been sexually harassed , that is students who answered the questionnaire . |
| 5 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 6 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 7 | Bowls of pot pourri scented the air , and the high ceilings gave a feeling of space and light The en suite bathroom was white marble with a luxuriously deep bath and lots of goodies to pamper yourself and it was with great effort that we dressed again for dinner , leaving our soft bathrooms and preening behind . |
| 8 | Worst for him , of course , was that they stood precisely for Welfaria : the hated era of the common man that this great beached whale of strident English traditionalism had come to feel so ineffectual against . |
| 9 | In one case , police admitted that they cried out for investigation , but explained that they could not undertake it as they had no men with the expertise needed . |
| 10 | An advantage of this use of directories is that it caters naturally for cases where a student 's work involves several different files . |
| 11 | there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal . |
| 12 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 13 | His deep , deep penetration of her came when they could hold back no longer , when the sensuality had swollen so painfully inside them that it cried out for release . |
| 14 | So amidst the doom and gloom that seems to cloud the the African horizon , we can see that aid does work and in the example I 've just given , that it works indeed for children . |
| 15 | If the Labour party did not want us to vote for its councillors , what confidence can we have in the people that it puts up for election ? |
| 16 | To contend under these circumstances that Jesus was a feminist , or that he spoke out for women , must imply a very low estimate of what being a feminist ( or speaking out for women ) might mean . |
| 17 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |