Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important element of any compensation payment is the damages intended to compensate you for the injury itself , and the effect it has on you and your lifestyle , both today and in the future . |
| 2 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 3 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 4 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 5 | Got to use it for the paint . |
| 6 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 7 | Cos I 've got to finish it for the morning . |
| 8 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 9 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |
| 10 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 11 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 12 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the BBC photographer had arrived to photograph me for the Radio Times . |
| 14 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 15 | An experienced producer at a major London agency was recently asked to list them for the benefit of newcomers . |
| 16 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
| 17 | And it well you 're meant to get fifteen pound are n't you , he 's meant to pay you for the work ? |
| 18 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 19 | At table there were some small , preliminary escapes , nothing much ; I was determined to save everything for the climax . |
| 20 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 21 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 22 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 23 | But for that old lady , I had been ordered to do her for the fire . |