Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His presence made up her mind for her and she turned , brushing past him and heading towards a newspaper vendor who sat shivering behind his stall at the nearby entrance to a Metro station . |
| 2 | The purges have proved to be one of the most hotly debated topics for historians because , due to the harsh censorship and killing of many opponents of Stalin , there is a lack of opinion and primary sources which show how they affected the whole country , and nobody could read Stalin 's obviously warped mind to find out his reasons for this holocaust . |
| 3 | Some people in publishing like to think of theirs as a glamorous medium , so they sometimes copy the Hollywood glitter , They certainly did so last week , when the Periodical Publishers Association handed out its awards for 1983 . |
| 4 | The unsuccessful hunter is met with marked coldness by the women , while the successful hunter flings down his kill for the women to prepare , and with studied indifference goes to lie down . |
| 5 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 6 | Early in 1987 , a memo was circulated to all Harvard staff assuring them that Harvard would still be in business that time the following year and that appeal options would be taken up , should the Stock Exchange turn down their application for membership . |
| 7 | Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker . |
| 8 | In San Salvador , meanwhile , the FMLN issued a communique setting down its conditions for a truce . |
| 9 | In San Salvador , meanwhile , the FMLN issued a communique setting down its conditions for a truce . |
| 10 | As Les and I walked into their tiny , barely furnished house , his wife greeted us , and his little girl held up her arms for me to lift her . |
| 11 | The vague red haze swam over his eyes for a moment , then cleared . |
| 12 | Mr Waddington is understood to have accepted the board 's proposals and is about to announce a package to speed up its work for implementation early next year . |
| 13 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 14 | Charity held out her hand for the file , and flipped it open . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend set out his policy for 1992 — — so that I can congratulate him on his anniversary again next year , when he will still be Prime Minister ? |
| 16 | Whilst at 1 SFTS on Harvards my instructor brought along his spaniel for a ride on cross-country exercises ! |
| 17 | Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the river sprucing up their horses for the fair . |
| 18 | Daine was n't the only multibillionaire living out his fantasy for ever . |
| 19 | This was on ‘ the night of the long knives ’ , when Macmillan dismissed seven of his Cabinet ( including Eccles ) and provoked the remark from Jeremy Thorpe : ‘ Greater love hath no man than this , that a man lay down his friends for his life . ’ |
| 20 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
| 21 | In a White Paper , Streamlining the Cities ( 1983 ) , the Conservative government set out its case for further structural change . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp sketched out its plans for tackling the groupware market last week and explained how it is taking a completely different tack from Lotus Development Corp . |
| 23 | The calls came as the British Medical Association in a new report stepped up its demands for a total ban on boxing . |
| 24 | They are appealing to the nation to switch off its lights for five minutes at 8pm to show the Government the depth of anger at the coal crisis . |
| 25 | Critics would stress the extent to which the children 's freedom to map out their lives for themselves , to make genuine preferences on the basis of a range of possibilities denied them , had been stifled . |
| 26 | Citizens who had the orthodox Soviet version of Ukrainian history rammed down their throats for decades are now being told a completely different version , arguably also coloured by the political prejudices of its authors . |
| 27 | The expansion will see the company step up its demand for an additional 200,000 tonnes of commercially-grown timber per year . |
| 28 | On April 12 the ANC published a 32-page document laying down its principles for a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 29 | This sacrifice was made in order to bring out their relevance for government intervention , especially of a fiscal form , and the public choice perspective . |
| 30 | MORE than 1,000 Maxwell pensioners and print workers yesterday staged a rally and lobby of Parliament to step up their campaign for Government action to give them long-term security for their pensions . |