Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 2 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 3 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 4 | Woosnam himself , angry at the time of the incident at the 13th , said this week that ‘ only a few people spoilt it for a lot ’ . |
| 5 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 6 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
| 7 | The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way . |
| 8 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 9 | And we discover the doctrine that conscience reprimands you for every one of your pleasures erm sweet dishes , music , everything , because they are all the product of depraved and sinful human nature . |
| 10 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 11 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
| 12 | Many people borrow it for a day from a sympathetic relative . |
| 13 | She must prevent Ursula seeing this , at all events prepare her for the reality of it . |
| 14 | ‘ What will people think when those children ask her for an improper story ! ’ |
| 15 | And although three quarters of our teenagers thought it best to wait until 16 before losing their virginity , the younger boys say they feel under pressure to have sex and reckoned they 've got even less information to equip them for a sex life . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've got enough money to keep you for the rest of your life . |
| 17 | had you had any opportunity to prepare yourself for the sort of questions he might be asking ? |
| 18 | In Stafford , soldiers were forbidden from bring their families into the town unless they had enough funds to keep them for a quarter of a year , due to the large number of camp followers registering for charity . |
| 19 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 20 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 21 | Sport , and with the new football season just over a month old , Oxford United Football Club probably feels they 've had enough problems to last them for a lifetime . |
| 22 | And and at the same time ask them for a date when they want the stone . |