Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 2 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 3 | It was like the feeling he used to get when he played another game from his childhood ; that of closing his eyes and walking for a certain number of steps along , say , a wide path in a park . |
| 4 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |
| 5 | On behalf of all local authority caterers , I thank Joe Hyam for his kind words and support for the local authority caterers . |
| 6 | In particular , will he urge that the Indonesians should immediately abandon the trial of the two East Timorese survivors and press for a full United Nations investigation ? |
| 7 | You get the end of season and it 's if you look at the labels and go for the decent labels then you do n't get sort of , quite reasonable quality . |
| 8 | It recommends an increase in the number of part time training posts and allows for a resulting modest fall in the average number of whole time equivalents that doctors work . |
| 9 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 10 | An essential element in job creation is the provision of training for school leavers and retraining for the long term unemployed . |
| 11 | That done , the wee dandy , roofed by a wig of blazing defiance , hooked thumbs into his waistcoat pockets and sauntered for the bar-top city heights . |
| 12 | If you look at the report , White Paper , you 'll notice that it 's sticking to a , a freezing of the nineteen-ninety levels by the year two thousand and five , and you may feel that you would like to see this country come more into line with the other E E C countries and ask for a freezing by the year two thousand . |
| 13 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 14 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 15 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 16 | He was to express the presbytery 's grave concern over certain aspects of the handling of these cases and press for an urgent review of procedure in suspected child abuse cases . |
| 17 | You could find it useful to comment on past reactions and to ask for a fresh angle : ‘ When we 've talked about having some staff working from home , we 've always got bogged down in cost factors regarding the technology needed . |
| 18 | The committees are empowered to take evidence from ministers , civil servants and outside experts and to call for the necessary papers and records . |
| 19 | Zacchaeus gritted his teeth and waited for a great long telling off from Jesus . |
| 20 | ‘ I pay enough tax on my first job ’ , Mike said , and did n't accept the connection between taxes and help for the unemployed . |
| 21 | It would have meant seven hundred vacancies and work for the jobless . |
| 22 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 23 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 24 | Once appointed , members operate as individuals rather than delegates and serve for an initial term of two years , which their district may then extend by two additional terms to six years in all . |
| 25 | We stomped down the stone steps to collect our sacks and made for the Upper Tier of the crag . |
| 26 | Please complete these details and keep for a handy reference . |
| 27 | THE Bundesbank indicated yesterday that there were no immediate plans to reduce interest rates and pleaded for a rigorous savings campaign by Germans to combat rising debts . |
| 28 | He will be required to compensate the local people for the stolen logs and to pay for an environmental recovery plan for the damaged area . |
| 29 | The MPs slammed the ‘ elitism ’ of Jockey Club chiefs and called for a fresh investigation into the race . |
| 30 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |