Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ . |
| 2 | The rest of the money was used to pay for a dinner at the Crescent Hotel . |
| 3 | When she recovered , she was invited to stay for a while at Thrushcross Grange . |
| 4 | Of course life is not always as simple as that , and being asked to cover for a colleague at very short notice or an unexpected cancellation or transfer on the theatre list can throw your best laid plans into disarray . |
| 5 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |