Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gemma , 11 , was found alone at a flat in Hammersmith a fortnight after her mother left for a month 's holiday with a male friend on the Costa del Sol . |
| 2 | She watched as the mare completed a second circuit in canter , waiting for her rider to ask for the gallop . |
| 3 | The door closed after Harriet , and Sally rifled through her wardrobe looking for a dress of mauve-sprigged white seersucker , slightly yellowed now , and quite out of place amongst the designer gowns . |
| 4 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 5 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 6 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 7 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |
| 8 | Hence the definition of bureaucracy , referred to in Chapter 1 , which restricts it to the implementation of public policy made by elected politicians and supervised by those of their number chosen for the task and responsible for the outcome . |
| 9 | Other people at the Town Hall only spent part of their time working for the Tramways Department . |
| 10 | They are often allowed ( and expected ) to spend part of their time studying for a higher degree . |
| 11 | If so , this would compound the effect on housing of its tax rises for the well-off . |
| 12 | The United States on 2 November won a vote of 64 to 5 in support of its motion calling for a cease-fire . |
| 13 | He could hardly begin to imagine what it must be like for her — everything severed , no turning back , the entire texture of her life abandoned for the deep terror of the new . |
| 14 | Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no. 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No. 10 . |
| 15 | Marina spends most of her time caring for the younger children who live with her in the cellar — especially nine-month-old Vedo Besagic . |
| 16 | Somebody who has spent 40 years of his life working for the Scottish Transport Group would receive two thirds of his pensionable salary on retirement . |
| 17 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
| 18 | Roseau 's appeal to members of his association to vote for the Gaullists carried considerable weight . |
| 19 | The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone . |
| 20 | The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans . |
| 21 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 22 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 23 | James was speaking at his home in Shepherds Bush , West London , as members of his family gathered for a celebration party . |
| 24 | We have stayed within the requirements of our banking covenants for the past eight consecutive quarters . |
| 25 | Nor do we see it as part of our task to plead for a return to old-fashioned grammar teaching and learning by rote . |
| 26 | Our Solar System is certainly a prerequisite for our existence , and one might extend this to the whole of our galaxy to allow for an earlier generation of stars that created the heavier elements . |
| 27 | I am sorry to observe so little Care taken of the Education of our Youth designed for the Sea , even such as have a Prospect of commanding Ships either in the Government or Merchant Service : The element in which they live renders them rough and boisterous which makes a little Education more necessary to give them an early Byass . |
| 28 | Adam Sweeting on why Prince 's dancing sensation is aiming for stardom-without him Cat goes for the cream . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 30 | In their world it is not the father of the bride who digs into his pocket to pay for the wedding . |