Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 2 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 3 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 4 | Tobacco and cocaine are harmful but , again , tobacco is almost universally allowed , whereas most readers of The Economist live in countries which may imprison you for possessing cocaine . |
| 5 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 6 | flower gardens they used to use them for , some people would probably grow small things like lettuce and salads and things of that nature . |
| 7 | no readies , no on the , you give me readies you can have it for three thousand dead . |
| 8 | He ai n't putting them up is he take them down to Helen 's then some lovely decorations we 'll ask him for them Helen . |
| 9 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 10 | ‘ These are all the variations I can show you for the moment . ’ |
| 11 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |
| 12 | The first five are in Latin , but Miller , realising his limitations , wrote in August 1763 , ‘ I have taken the liberty of writing to you in English , being informed that you can either read it yourself , or have some persons who can translate it for you ’ . |
| 13 | With a carrying capacity of 160 litres , you 'll find the list of things you can sue it for is endless . |
| 14 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 15 | Ken 's last wish was that his coffin should be carried by six Athletico players but I could not find a single one of the bastards who would do it for less than fifty quid . |
| 16 | The kind of crooks who 'd do anything for money , deal in guns , that sort of thing . |
| 17 | Saints coach Mike McClennan enthused : ‘ With McCracken and Connolly in the centres we 'll have something for the ladies and something for the opposition. ! |
| 18 | Yeah , she 'd started to need Dionne , pushed it aside since they were friends , and between friends you could take it for granted , since it was . |
| 19 | Nine days after taking the drug at a friend 's 21st birthday party Rachel , 25 , still has vivid flashbacks which could haunt her for the rest of her life . |
| 20 | In some lessons you might use it for five minutes . |
| 21 | With their novel shape and colourful appearance , Dolphin scissors have proved very popular with children who can use them for cutting paper , card or fabric . |
| 22 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 23 | As yet I have not seen a golden eagle on any of my trips to Argyll , but if I do I would appreciate any tips you could give me for photographing them . |
| 24 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 25 | To be sold primarily through VARs and system integrators who will customise it for vertical markets , InConcert serves Unix and PC users in configurations from entry-level workgroups up through the enterprise . |
| 26 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 27 | There are women who will do it for a glass of champagne ! |
| 28 | ‘ You 're ordering me around again , if that 's what you mean , ’ she replied , ‘ and if you think I 'm going to trot obediently upstairs and take off all my clothes you must take me for a fool . ’ |
| 29 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |