Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
| 2 | Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle ? |
| 3 | ‘ When Estwick passed on the fact that Jones had mentioned you as a possible candidate for this job and your previous experience confirmed that you were amply qualified to do it , I thought — what the hell ! |
| 4 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 5 | It will also provide you with a helpful forum for explaining your particular needs , and your views on the process and content of education . |
| 6 | They will also try to inculcate you with a spurious respect for a ‘ culture ’ which not only fails to distinguish between what is good and what is profitable but which can not distinguish between substance and insubstantiality . |
| 7 | we will provide you with a new schedule for your guidance but you do not have to complete it unless you want to . |
| 8 | Come on , let's turn you into a human being for wee while again . |
| 9 | You should surround yourself with close friends — it will put you in a good mood for dealing with a financial matter . |
| 10 | Once a lady aid a daughter , remote cousins or friends of friends , came , and the girl left me with a yearning heart for some days and a curiosity for years like my curiosity about the lost childish books . |
| 11 | I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month . |
| 12 | No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid . |
| 13 | Their campaigns for legal enforcement were backed by a powerful language which identified whole new technologies of sex and forged them into a popular crusade for reform . |
| 14 | Welding them into a single resource for classroom teaching was a difficult task for the teachers and a confusing , unsatisfactory experience for pupils . |
| 15 | Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners . |
| 16 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 17 | Plenty of steps , most of them with a rich reward for the climber , such as those that lead to the Lindenhof . |
| 18 | Many bodies have stated that the grant aid procedures and the application form provide them with a ready basis for an effective budgeting system . |
| 19 | The four men — Talb , aged 35 , Marten Imandi , and two brothers , Mustafa and Mahmoud Mougrabi — were known to the intelligence services , who linked them with a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP-GC ) cell working in Frankfurt and Neuss . |
| 20 | If you like your lips to look nude , makeup artist Ya'nina suggests outlining them with a skin-toned pencil for definition and filling with Vaseline , balm or a lip gloss . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the idea of network impinges fairly closely on the notion of sociolinguistic functions , as we have presented this in chapter 2 , because it is a fundamental postulate of network analysis that individuals create personal communities that provide them with a meaningful framework for solving the problems of their day-to-day existence ( Mitchell 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 22 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 23 | Do n't leave them in a warm care for three or four hours . |
| 24 | They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year . |
| 25 | In other words , they may win within the established system but it does not get them very far if they are not carrying the people with them in a popular crusade for change . |
| 26 | The modern world has discovered that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C — and has started using them in a big way for cooking . |
| 27 | I 'd put that out with them two tapes and take to Julie to put them on a big tape for you . |
| 28 | Undismayed , she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms , and Brian to another preparatory school . |
| 29 | ‘ And that brings me to a further reason for my summoning you here today . |
| 30 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |