Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun pl] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 2 | You 'll forgive me , sirs , but I 've forgotten your names for the moment . |
| 3 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 5 | Diana , for her part , thought she would become a wife and mother ; but , with all the servants and secretaries who surrounded the Prince , including a valet who selected and prepared his clothes for the day , packed for him and even did his personal shopping , she felt superfluous , and just a little jealous . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got my papers for the Army , Mr Fitz . |
| 7 | ‘ If only I 'd got my clothes for the wedding , ’ she mourned . |
| 8 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 9 | A convenient time , with the light fading , for all the brothers who were engaged in copying or reading had abandoned their books for the evening , leaving the prior to ensure that everything was decently replaced exactly where it should be . |
| 10 | The ICI team pinned its hopes for the programme 's success on the untried gas-liquid reactions . |
| 11 | Mr Alan Milburn , Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington , was pleased the appeal had failed but suspected Bioplan might have abandoned its plans for the town anyway due to financial problems . |
| 12 | Innocent certainly knew the position of Monaco and it was through him probably that the pope made known his conditions for the acceptance of Otto . |
| 13 | Nirex , the UK nuclear industry 's waste disposal company , has announced its plans for the storage of Britain 's nuclear waste in an underground repository near Sellafield in Cumbria . |
| 14 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 15 | As for himself , he was sorry she was upset — and also , if he was honest , a little irritated too , because the crisis had wrecked his plans for the morning . |
| 16 | Watkins LJ gave the principal judgment in the Divisional Court and upheld the application on the ground that the Minister had not given his reasons for the decision not to make a reference and that this was ‘ irrational ’ . |
| 17 | When they reached Etaples and had pitched their tents for the night , Charlie decided that perhaps the gymnasium in Edinburgh had been luxury after all . |
| 18 | Scotland 's European hopes , Aberdeen and Celtic , have started their preparations for the midweek matches with two of the continent 's most famous names . |
| 19 | MIDDLESBROUGH team manager Ken Knott has switched his pairings for the return Gold Cup meeting with Sheffield at Cleveland Park tonight . |
| 20 | ( 11–12 February 1778 ) as if to add insult to injury , Leopold received Mozart 's letter telling him that he had not yet finished his commissions for the Dutchman : |
| 21 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 22 | The Strathclyde Firemaster , John Jameson , said at the scene of the tragedy that the family had lost their lives for the price of a £5 smoke alarm . |
| 23 | The WEA could take some comfort from the presence among the remaining six on the committee of Alan Bullock , who had expressed his sympathies for the movement in the previous year 's Highway , and of G. B. Thorneycroft of the General Council of the TUC . |
| 24 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 25 | ALLAN CAMPBELL , who took over his new post as national director of coaching and development for the Scottish Badminton Union ( SBU ) on Monday , has outlined his hopes for the future . |