Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas looks to be a time for burying the hatchet or exhuming it for re-examination . |
| 2 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 3 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 4 | Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important . |
| 5 | So why not go along and give Fiona McVey five minutes of your time while having lunch or join her for coffee in the coffee lounge on the first floor of A30 on 24 February between 12 noon and 1.30pm . |
| 6 | If you physically vacate your home and let it for profit — perhaps because you have decided to live permanently with a friend — under tax law , the property would be treated as an investment and subject to certain exemptions would be assessed for CGT when it was sold . |
| 7 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 8 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 9 | Very soon the child was calmer and they were able to cover the damaged skin and prepare her for transfer . |
| 10 | The Darlington-built loco of 1954 is the ‘ raison d'être ’ of the group which formed with the purpose of bringing a Darlington North Road Works locomotive back to the town and restore it for use on BR metals in the North East . |
| 11 | Talk to your church leader or youth leader and ask them for advice and prayer support . |
| 12 | The seller can , if he so wishes , simply keep the bill to maturity and present it for payment ( as in 6 . ) . |
| 13 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 14 | When at the end his brothers poured out their guilt and begged him for forgiveness , he replied with the words , ‘ Fear not , for am I in the place of God ? ’ |
| 15 | Trying to teach a concept and use it for communication at the same time is an impossible task . |
| 16 | It is therefore essential to find a form of activity we enjoy so that we are happy to practise it two or three times a week and continue it for life . |
| 17 | Impressed by the slave 's apparent physical prowess , Percy took ‘ Bill Richmond ’ under his tutelage and groomed him for prize fighting . |
| 18 | Eliza Bunce was the widow of the Revd John Bunce ( died 1786 ) , vicar of St Stephen 's , who encouraged Dixon 's writing and corrected it for publication . |
| 19 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 20 | Mike Duffy , a sound engineer with Britain 's most successful production team of Stock , Aitken and Waterman , heard Kylie 's rendition of the song and re-recorded it for Mushroom . |
| 21 | Sir Haydn 's family intended to seek an Abandonment Order for the line and sell it for scrap . |
| 22 | Slip your right hand through the hand grip strap and adjust it for comfort if necessary . |
| 23 | When the Prime Warden had laid the stone and tested it for square and level , the Rector of Stockport offered prayers for success , and the ceremony concluded with cheers for the Goldsmiths and their munificence . |
| 24 | We are most interested in the idea of networking , sharing skills such as translation and using them for distance learning . ’ |
| 25 | After careful consideration Ted decided to deep plough the land and prepare it for cultivation . |
| 26 | In September 1985 , the second defendant collected the reliquary and packed it for shipment to the plaintiff , Cleveland Museum of Art . |
| 27 | Under the terms of the initial agreement , Thomson-CSF will be able to use the PowerPC architecture to develop digital processing functions for its equipment and will be licensed to manufacture some microprocessors from the PowerPC family and customise them for defence and aerospace applications . |
| 28 | First , I would clean the fireside , get the fire going , put a clean cloth on the table and lay it for breakfast . |