Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | Credit cards are particularly useful when travelling and there are often insurance benefits if you pay for your travel through them . |
| 7 | Conciliation facilities are available in the county courts where you go for the divorce . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We use the same word for a quality of material things as we use for a bodily sensation . |
| 12 | The significance of this comparative quiet will not be lost on party leaders as they prepare for provincial elections in the next 18 months . |