Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 2 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 3 | I 've worked only for the common good , humbly trying to advance knowledge … ’ |
| 4 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 5 | They tend to cater mainly for the under-sixties , although they are always willing to do everything they can to help the older widow too . |
| 6 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 7 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 8 | At home , high street sales have risen modestly for the second month running . |
| 9 | THE PARENTS of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time about their tragedy and their new hopes for the birth of another child . |
| 10 | THE parents of toddler James Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time since their son 's tragic death in February . |
| 11 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 12 | There , the hosts are our Tuscan expert Mario Baiocchi and the Anichini family whose ancestors have lived here for the past 300 years . |
| 13 | We were going to visit my aunt and uncle who have lived there for the past five years . |
| 14 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |