Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on , perhaps at the next election , there might be an opportunity for me to get into Parliament . |
| 2 | The submission of the father had been to the effect that the court should leave open the opportunity for him to apply for custody of the children in the divorce proceedings then pending . |
| 3 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 4 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 5 | Of course in practice you may prefer a slightly more subtle prompt — maybe just a W to act as a flag for you to remember to type EXIT . |
| 6 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 7 | The best advice I can give you is simply to go for unfair dismissal on the basis that you 've got two managers who do exactly the same job , there 's no need for you to go on site , there are other drivers that could get you there , therefore it 's not necessary to finish your job simply because you 've lost your licence . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to bother with cooking or anything , yet . |
| 9 | I sent her the manuscript , and she appointed a day for me to come to tea and take it back . |
| 10 | And so I 'm not sure where it is , what time it is I do n't have no contact for it to get in touch with , and I 'm wondering if anybody , any of your listeners either members or know of the Guild . |
| 11 | But there was no chance for him to rest in seclusion , even if he wished to do so — by April his brother was dying , and because of the urgency of the situation Eliot flew to New York on 22 April . |
| 12 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 13 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 14 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 15 | It therefore makes good sense for us to control for date of birth when looking at the effects of terminal education age . |
| 16 | I do n't want to hand a scapegoat over to Kenamun for him to torture into confession . ’ |
| 17 | To create an even greater homogeneity we excluded also all those who were doubly incontinent at referral ( since we know that the project found such people very hard to support ; see Chapter Seven ) , and all those whose condition — either mental or physical — was deemed too poor at referral for them to remain at home at all . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't really want to imagine what they were like but I know it 's not an intense thing for him to do like Platoon was . |
| 19 | If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements . |
| 20 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 21 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 22 | Four years ago I wrote to ask your readers if they would knit and donate one item for me to sell in aid of Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital . |
| 23 | ELT Journal is the ideal way for you to keep in touch with the world of English Language Teaching . |
| 24 | The actual date for it to come into force has yet to be announced by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 25 | She had no doubt it would be a very bad idea for them to go in search of Oliver and Cobalt . |
| 26 | eyes on before and when it was time for me to go to bed I would be encouraged not made |
| 27 | Even in the evenings , he crafted his ships while Uncle Philip and Finn made puppets until it was half past eight and time for him to go to bed . |
| 28 | From long experience he knew the hangover would pass before it was time for him to stalk on stage and rebuke Hamlet for grieving overmuch for his father . |
| 29 | There he was provisioned with every known variety of soft drink , and kept virtually incommunicado until it was time for him to travel to Broadcasting House . |
| 30 | When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat . |