Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler 's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations . |
| 2 | Just get rid of the condensation for . |
| 3 | PageMaker shipped 30,000 units in its first year and has now become regarded as the benchmark for today 's competitors . |
| 4 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 5 | But Mark had now become absorbed in an idea for a sermon that had suddenly come to him . |
| 6 | Go left along the road for 260 yds until you reach the footpath sign . |
| 7 | I 've rung around the place for you . |
| 8 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , we 've sailed with the company for several years now , have n't we , Dexter ? ’ |
| 10 | They 've grown alongside the fashion for fireplace surrounds , although the coal heating market is lapsing slightly . ’ |
| 11 | Now quite clearly the new settlement erm when it , if and when it goes ahead will be outside erm the area of the green belt and which by definition is by and large the area of the Greater York er er study area , and I think in response to er Mr 's point , we 've accepted as a need for a er a minor amendment to the wording of policy H one to reflect that er that reality . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them . |
| 13 | Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years . |
| 14 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 15 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 16 | Since I lost my job I 've worked as a decoy for Antonescu , luring on innocent foreigners who come here to take advantage of low Hungarian prices . |
| 17 | The training officer coached the dealer in what to say : " Tell him you 've worked in the City for some time . |
| 18 | The genial heavyweight said : ‘ I 've fought as an amateur for a few years . |
| 19 | I 've put through a request for all the technical libraries to run the Jenner reference list through their own databanks at the end of each day . |
| 20 | Mr chairman Derek I 've lived in the town for something like thirty five years and seems to me that the problem here is a lot of mistrust between people who use the theatre and the board somewhere people are not getting answers . |
| 21 | Why it is , it 's very , very , very wrong , say we pay all year round for that , I 've paid for a year for my ticket |
| 22 | For example , in at least one rural area , we have heard of a tendency for professional people to send their children to the nearby town or another village school if they feel their own village school is unsatisfactory . ’ |
| 23 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 24 | Burun 's chief wife was small and slim , handsome in the way that unremarkable women sometimes are when they have matured past the need for beauty , and the red-gold of her hair was as yet unmarred by the silver which would have betrayed her age . |
| 25 | FORTY years at Sellafield have come to an end for Harry Brocklebank , but he will not be short of news about the site . |
| 26 | I have come to an arrangement for local dealers to have the fry when they are big enough . |
| 27 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |
| 28 | Historically , British Rail and its predecessors have argued to the House for certain railway lines to be built in a particular way . |
| 29 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 30 | I have thought of a way for you to attend all the services . |