Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 2 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 3 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 4 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 5 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 6 | but Pauline must of remembered it perhaps for the |
| 7 | The shortage of labour forced the landowners to change their methods of exploiting their estates , most obviously in the abandonment of direct cultivation of the demesne by the lord 's paid men in favour of leasing it out for a cash rent . |
| 8 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 9 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 10 | Now then , I like the new look — ’ Sarella had had her hair cropped ‘ — and was thinking of putting you in for the ingénue , but I 'm having second thoughts . ’ |
| 11 | She , they should of put her in for the intermediate |
| 12 | If we can sort of get them out for a night or even if they get back at twelve . |
| 13 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 14 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 15 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 16 | Formatting to the rear of the Rallye , Legg established radio contact , and gently eased Anderson through a series of power adjustments and manoeuvres to make a practice approach at Cardiff before bringing him around for a successful , damage- and injury-free landing . |
| 17 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
| 18 | My experience also spans the full spectrum of aircraft maintenance within the RAF from turning them around for the next flight at the sharp end , through the deeper repair at station level to the major repair at remote sites . |
| 19 | Instead , I suggested Jeanne and John tire Moby with a few chase and throw-fetch games in the garden before taking him out for a walk on an extendable lead . |
| 20 | Originally , Geoff Huffer , Ile De Nisky 's trainer , felt his colt was immature and was going to give him just one more run before putting him away for an ambitious campaign next year . |
| 21 | The leggy actress has revealed that she now shreds all the rubbish at her Malibu home before putting it out for the dust-men . |
| 22 | We would increase the public sector borrowing requirement for the first two years before reducing it sharply for the rest of our term of office to balance the books over five years . |
| 23 | How about taking me out for a drink then ? |
| 24 | ‘ Some of them around here would n't think twice about dragging you away for no reason . ’ |
| 25 | I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself . |
| 26 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 27 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 28 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 29 | The only thing on the ground floor that was similar to a dressing-room was a gents ' loo , so we set about disguising its true purpose by dressing it up for the evening . |