Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries is expected to use its supercomputer for the rice genome project at the National Institute of Agrobiological Resources in Tsukuba , but the ministry has yet to reveal its plans . |
| 3 | Outside in the street , still waiting in the cold wind were the friends , neighbours and complete strangers who had come to show their support for the families . |
| 4 | ‘ The direct cause of the Clapham Junction accident was undoubtedly the wiring errors made by Mr Hemingway , ’ the report says , adding : ‘ He has never sought to evade his reponsibility for the appalling consequences of his errors … not one word of excuse came from Mr Hemingway . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am pleased and thankful that the medical practice have sought to accept their responsibility for the oversight as soon as possible . ’ |
| 6 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 7 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report on Feb. 21 claimed that Congress ( I ) had threatened to withdraw its support for the government unless the five ministers were removed . |
| 8 | Each district to be balloted to produce its squad for the six thousand , and if the ballot brings up your name , ’ he paused again and saw the hundreds of eyes fixed on his , ‘ then you must go off to the Army , or else pay £10 to hire a substitute . |
| 9 | He opened his eyes and prepared to correct his daughter for the several hundredth occasion in their lives together . |
| 10 | Like any other parent with a vested interest in the future generations I am very easily persuaded to do my bit for the environment . |
| 11 | Here are Phil ready ? got to clear me throat for a minute |
| 12 | Mr Aichi had had to withdraw his candidature for the governorship of Miyagi prefecture when it was revealed that he had been on the take . |
| 13 | Rechem also agreed to drop its request for a judicial review into Torfaen 's monitoring of contamination supposedly caused by the firm , and of its publication of the results . |
| 14 | ‘ She has agreed to stop her writing for a while , and become Head Nurse of my hospital . ’ |
| 15 | Everything was now irradiated by this feeling , which was bound to affect his work for the good . |
| 16 | Customers are invited to nominate their plumber for the title . |
| 17 | READY TEDDY SPURS are set to renew their bid for the Forest striker Teddy Sheringham |
| 18 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 19 | The ex-CSKA Moscow goalkeeper is set to make his debut for the reserves against Oxford tonight . |
| 20 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 21 | Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October |
| 22 | In addition , your schedule could be upset if you only intended to break your journey for a short time at a particular spot . |
| 23 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 24 | Harrison had never tried to conceal his dislike for the Major and Carew . |
| 25 | At the start of the 1970s , then , we were forced to turn our search for an understanding of the universe from our theory of the extraordinarily vast to our theory of the extraordinarily tiny . |
| 26 | Yet the radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it had only just begun to lose its fascination for the English as the ideal that humbler men might emulate in a reduced form . |
| 27 | Despite the persistent rumours of drug use Barry commanded a considerable degree of popularity , particularly amongst the city 's 70 per cent black population , and on Jan. 21 , 1990 , he had planned to announce his candidacy for a fourth consecutive term as mayor . |
| 28 | By mid-February opponents of the government 's privatization law , narrowly approved by Congress with Colorado support in late September 1991 , had successfully gathered the 12,000 signatures constitutionally required to continue their campaign for a referendum on privatization . |
| 29 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |