Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 2 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 3 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 4 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 5 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 6 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 7 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 8 | Epstein concluded that management of stress among the experienced parachutists was not due to their repeated exposure to jumping in the manner of a conditioned response , but was a consequence of an active coping process that on each occasion was used to prepare them for the coming jump . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He has already been asked to join them for a 60-date tour next year . |
| 11 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 12 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 13 | Skill is also required to arrange it for a particular choir , group or instruments . |
| 14 | FRENCH inventors are being urged to gird themselves for an economic war against foreigners who steal their ideas . |