Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere of the Fens and the peculiarities of these strange fish , even after all those years , keep calling me back for more . |
| 2 | Try missing it out for two weeks and you will habituate to non-use . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 4 | Charge , you 've turned it on for ten hours , how much will I charge you ? |
| 5 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 6 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 7 | I 've ticked you off for all these here . |
| 8 | So when we come across one that has reached its sixth , we must sit up , take notice and ask why market forces have singled it out for special success . |
| 9 | History may be cited as an example , not least because in the post-Falklands era several leading figures , including Sir Keith Joseph and Professor Hugh Thomas , have singled it out for special mention in connection with ‘ understanding the shared values which are a distinctive feature of British Society ’ . |