Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you set about making your plans for next year let me leave you with this thought from Eglantine Jebb If children of any country are physically or morally abandoned the whole world loses by it and the whole world gains if children grow up healthy , capable and ready to work for the good of their neighbours . |
| 2 | They do not understand their reasons for living this way . |
| 3 | In addition the received legal model of the company gives powers to the shareholders to ensure that the directors once in office do not use their powers for their own self-interest . |
| 4 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 5 | His general point may survive even if we do not share his preferences for physics , or even science . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't choose my friends for the size of their wallets , you know . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't blame my parents for the way I turned out , I 'm the one responsible . |
| 8 | ‘ We d'Urbervilles do n't sell our horses for cat 's meat ! ’ he insisted . |
| 9 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 10 | It can only do that , however , if more people come forward to share their lives for a day or two each month . ’ |
| 11 | Many councils have employed too many staff over the years , have been too inefficient , and have not maintained their homes for the elderly and residential care homes as well as they should have done . |
| 12 | HARD-UP Brighton have not paid their players for six weeks and backroom staff have not had wages for two months . |
| 13 | There are still some teachers who have not paid their fees for training days for 1980 . |
| 14 | Some middle-class voters have supported the Labour Party and about one-third of working-class voters have traditionally cast their ballots for Conservative candidates . |
| 15 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 16 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 17 | I have n't cleaned my teeth for a week . ’ |
| 18 | All ages are interested in the sport and some men have even left their wives for more time to fish ! |