Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many of the household products and home improvements that we take for granted are potentially harmful . |
| 2 | In the National Liberal Club last night , party activists were busy savouring the mathematic soup stirred up by television exit polls as they waited for the results to roll in . |
| 3 | Backed by one of the world 's largest financial institutions , The Mortgage Corporation has lent over £3 billion to over 55,000 mortgage customers since they opened for business in 1986 . |
| 4 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 5 | Inspect and open all kitchen units and try to glimpse the wall surfaces that they cover for signs of damp . |
| 6 | The one day schools that we run for school teachers in the South East of England , a larger catchment area than the East and West Sussex — in fact it goes up towards London and it includes London — it goes out towards Kent and Portsmouth . |
| 7 | This patient was sensitive to yeast and reacted to it in very small amounts , so that she produced a positive reaction even with the minute quantities that they used for testing . |
| 8 | The Cleveland Way and the Lyke Wake Walk are , of course , the best known long distance routes and they coincide for about 12 miles . |
| 9 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 10 | Collecting waste is the responsibility of Local Councils and we pay for this through our taxes . |
| 11 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 12 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 13 | Credit cards are particularly useful when travelling and there are often insurance benefits if you pay for your travel through them . |
| 14 | Conciliation facilities are available in the county courts where you go for the divorce . |
| 15 | Divergent political objectives notwithstanding , the obvious goodwill between Ho and the Americans , the limited but successful training teams that they provided for Vietminh guerrillas , and the obvious sympathy which many Americans — in particular , it seems the OSS — had for the cause of Vietnamese independence , not to mention corresponding doubts of the French title to Vietnam , all of these understandably encouraged the Vietminh in their political objective of the accomplished fact . |
| 16 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 17 | ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training . |
| 18 | Er with a perceived value of something like ten or twelve pounds but er that can be self financing with the profit on the bottles that the bottle tops that we ask for . |
| 19 | A police constable was injured as bottles and other missiles were thrown at 300 British National Party supporters as they arrived for the rally in York Hall , Bethnal Green . |
| 20 | The GMC is in touch with all final year medical students and house officers when they apply for provisional and full registration , and it would be a simple administrative matter to require applicants for registration to complete an anonymous questionnaire about their educational experiences . |
| 21 | We use the same word for a quality of material things as we use for a bodily sensation . |
| 22 | The significance of this comparative quiet will not be lost on party leaders as they prepare for provincial elections in the next 18 months . |
| 23 | And I learned to drive — mum and dad paid for my driving lessons and I paid for the driving test . |