Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . " |
| 2 | I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff . |
| 3 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 4 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 5 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 6 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 7 | PERSONAL liability of £250,000 to £1 million is advisable to cover you for the legal liability of injuring someone or damaging their property , particularly as insurers report an increase in such claims . |
| 8 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 9 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 10 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 11 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 12 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 13 | The seventeen pensioners who were able to join us for the annual get-together enjoyed themselves immensely and are already looking forward to next year 's trip ! |
| 14 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 15 | It is wonderful to lose yourself for a little while and you do meet such nice Medau people who do n't mind if you ca n't do it quite right and nearly drop your club on their foot ! |
| 16 | Unless you are guilty of gross misconduct , it will seldom be fair to dismiss you for a first breach of discipline . |
| 17 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 18 | They 're liable to confiscate it for the further entertainment of customs officers . ’ |
| 19 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |