Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [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 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 12 | Skill is also required to arrange it for a particular choir , group or instruments . |
| 13 | FRENCH inventors are being urged to gird themselves for an economic war against foreigners who steal their ideas . |