Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same instant someone had leapt for the window . |
| 2 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 3 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
| 4 | It was not an uncommon practice in the Middle Ages , where the corpses of the rich and powerful were concerned , to remove one or more of the organs — usually the heart — for burial at the place of death , such as the monastery which had cared for the person in their infirmary during the final illness . |
| 5 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 6 | ‘ Apparently his wife has some hot-shot L.A. lawyer who intends to go for the jugular . |
| 7 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 8 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 9 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 10 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 11 | But we could n't resist quoting captain Martyn Moxon at length in a piece he has penned for the club . |
| 12 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 13 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 14 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 15 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 16 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 17 | Diana warmed to her theme as the letter , written on Kensington Palace notepaper , continued with her favourite lament — the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 18 | She consulted her own solicitor , and wrote back to Prince Philip in the same angry terms , stressing the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 19 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 20 | And we in turn thank her , for all the work she has done for the Society . |
| 21 | It is appropriate that , through the medium of Medau News , we should thank Rita very warmly indeed for all the dedicated work she has done for the Society . |
| 22 | His appointment on a two-year contract will disappoint David Hobbs , the caretaker who had applied for the job on a permanent basis , but Chris Caisley , the Odsal chairman , hinted yesterday that patience might bring a reward for the Northern captain . |
| 23 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 24 | One lady who 's gone for the 90's set in a big way is Lisa Stansfield — her sleek , kiss-curl style has been replaced with this fabulous mass of casual curls by a stylist in Paris . |
| 25 | Shaking his head sadly at the stark scene he turned to head for the Zoo 's exit . |
| 26 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 27 | The act he 'd devised for the Easter Fete was a black mass . |
| 28 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 29 | In El Salvador , the church has increasingly suffered from internal divisions between the Orthodox Church and the majority who have opted for the theology of liberation to form the " Popular Church " , whose most important exponent , until his murder , was Archbishop Romero . |
| 30 | A PENSIONER who has worked for the community for many years has had his efforts officially recognised . |