Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 2 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 3 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 5 | Mr Thornton said : ‘ Our aim is to have something for the golfing world to see in July 1995 when the Open Championship is staged at St Andrews . ’ |
| 6 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 7 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 8 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 9 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 10 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 11 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 12 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 13 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 14 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 15 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 16 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 17 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |