Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the [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 | Go left along the road for 260 yds until you reach the footpath sign . |
| 5 | I 've rung around the place for you . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , we 've sailed with the company for several years now , have n't we , Dexter ? ’ |
| 8 | They 've grown alongside the fashion for fireplace surrounds , although the coal heating market is lapsing slightly . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them . |
| 10 | Only afterwards is it plain that , for the most part , they 've given the same answers they 've supplied to the press for years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The training officer coached the dealer in what to say : " Tell him you 've worked in the City for some time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Historically , British Rail and its predecessors have argued to the House for certain railway lines to be built in a particular way . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | The Appendix contains a brief selection of stories and picture books which I have used as the basis for drama with children in Key Stage One and can personally recommend . |
| 20 | Cos you have erm is normally four , four , sorry tenth and eleventh years in sixth formers , and they 've also got a subject choice section as well , which I have used in the past for ninth years and it wa , it just got them thinking about things in a completely different way from what we , they 've ever done |
| 21 | Meanwhile two members of the dead woman 's family have appealed to the public for help in catching her killer . |
| 22 | He argues that the walls would have reduced in thickness above the platform , and have acted as the stylobate for the columns of the portico and this could account for the comparatively small diameter of the column drum found on the site ( his p. 16 ) . |
| 23 | THE Tory politicians have talked about the need for action on the drift-netting problem but achieved nothing for , as is par for Westminster course , when they say something they delude themselves into believing that they have done something . |
| 24 | But I have stayed on the park for every day in our championship matches this season and I am confident I can last the full five days of the Test . |
| 25 | In addition it must be acknowledged that the public schools have adapted to the demand for scientific and managerial graduates by modernising their range of subjects and strengthening their science teaching . |
| 26 | Previous reports have focused on the evidence for direct cross-infection from patient to patient , and indirect nosocomial transmission from contact with contaminated equipment . |
| 27 | In addition to emigration out with the United Kingdom , many of the best products of their excellent education system have gone to the mainland for university studies , and then stayed on to work because of the dearth of suitable employment opportunities in the islands . |
| 28 | The complexity of buildings constructed today , and the large proportion of the work involving services , have led to the need for specialist subcontractors who play a large and important role in the building process . |
| 29 | The claims , first raised by a Scottish Office Education Department report in 1991 , have led to the Commission for Racial Equality launching a formal investigation into the region 's assessment procedures for bilingual children . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , at Newbury , our archaeologists have worked with the Trust for Wessex Archaeology and unearthed the remains of flint tools from a site dating back to the Middle Stone Age . |