Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we expected them to solve the problem for us . |
| 2 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 3 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ You helped me buy the land for the new town when I first came to Haiti . |
| 5 | But in Using a Model for Nursing ( Roper et al , 1983 ) , the third year student nurse contributing to the study in a surgical ward , commented that the model approach helped her to appreciate the need for planned discharge goals ; even when admitting the patient , she was alerted to consider what the patient required to know on discharge in order to resume her usual Activities of Living . |
| 6 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 7 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 8 | Fortunately , there was a small cell of opinion within the Air Ministry that passionately believed they knew the reason for the failure and , more importantly , felt that they also knew the answer . |
| 9 | Truman 's victory encouraged him to revive the battle for the Fair Deal . |
| 10 | The fact that the firms allowed him to use the money for his own purposes and replace it was merely an indulgence . |
| 11 | In the congested space few bullets could have missed their mark and the slaughter would probably have continued but for the presence of mind of the officer in charge of the war drums , who ordered them to beat the signal for silence , when the madness ceased as soon as it had arisen . |
| 12 | A stranger followed 26year-old Janice Butler into a lift at Aintree Hospital Trust 's site in Walton , Liverpool , and asked her to push the button for his floor . |
| 13 | He asked her to push the button for his floor . |
| 14 | The humiliation of Tsarist power in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–05 , led him to substitute the Kaiser for the Tsar as the main threat to democratic and socialist progress in Europe . |
| 15 | Daisy found him by telephone in Harrogate with the news of Fred 's death and asked him to identify the body for her . |
| 16 | SINGER-AND-SONGWRITER Channi Singh had a dream come true when one of Bombay 's biggest movie moguls asked him to pen the music for a multi-million pound cinema extravaganza , writes Michael Tarat . |
| 17 | I looked around the coach , and suddenly I thought I understood the reason for the strange smell . |
| 18 | Walking meant no bus meant she had the money for a cappuccino in the poser 's cafe . |
| 19 | I saw her watching the girl for the longest time and finally she said , " Are those Indian beads ? " |
| 20 | ‘ And do you think your father really meant her to own the house for ever ? ’ |
| 21 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 22 | Only when I began to realize what my situation was really like did I see the gospel for what it was — extremely good news for people in extremely bad situations . |
| 23 | What sort of mill did you use the mill for did you put grain through the mill |
| 24 | Miss did you ask the caller for his name ? |
| 25 | ‘ Did you know the reason for his anxiety ? ’ |
| 26 | Where did you get the inspiration for the hairstyles you created for the Awards ? |
| 27 | What did they use the trailer for ? |
| 28 | Not only did he lay the foundation for the theory of computer programs , but in 1952 he published a highly original paper on pattern formation . |
| 29 | If you , if that 's how you remembered it tell the policeman for the description . |
| 30 | How long had she seen the face for ? |