Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three and a half years ago I described my experience of a meeting I attended for briefing on the brave new world of budget holding , the wild card of the recently published NHS Review . |
| 2 | Thérèse had the pocket torch she used for reading under the bedclothes . |
| 3 | If ( hopefully ) a solution is reached , the approach you adopted for working through the conflict is discussed . |
| 4 | I blame myself you see for going in the hospital . |
| 5 | He writes : ‘ among [ the Dinka ] I had that experience of daily conversation which enables one to discriminate , as we take for granted in the language into which we were born , between what people mean and what they say . |
| 6 | We may find something wrong with her , items we need for overwintering in the ice . |
| 7 | They allowed for marking to the market , transactions costs ( which differed between institutions and members , and between long and short positions ) , and for capital gains , income and futures taxes . |
| 8 | What resources do they have for dealing with the unfamiliar , and how do they use them ? |
| 9 | If they are able to do so , what resources do they have for dealing with the external world , and how do they use them ? |
| 10 | Are we presuming that those students will not be expected to pay anything in the charge that they pay for staying in the halls of residence ? |
| 11 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 12 | During that first week she went out with Nahum in the trap he used for visiting in the parish , and she was continually looking for a young woman with white hair and a baby . |
| 13 | Though Hitchcock himself toured the locations in Denmark , East Germany and Sweden , he settled for filming at the Universal lot in the San Fernando valley . |
| 14 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |