Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 2 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 3 | If life has developed for the enjoyment that it brings , and it started with the existence of a single cell , then it is reasonable to suppose that the single cell was capable of the detection of an extremely small measure of ‘ pleasure ’ which it could experience by satisfying some ‘ desire ’ . |
| 4 | Superintendent Hayes sealed the bedroom , leaving PC May at the house until Norris had arranged for the body to go to the mortuary . |
| 5 | Roycroft and Smith worry about perverse incentives : the fact that hospital treatment costs nothing , while people have to pay for the home care that will keep them out of hospital . |
| 6 | Since Iran refused to pay for the TOW missiles until they were delivered a Saudi Arabian middleman called Adnan Khashoggi , whose social lifestyle and divorce proceedings help fill the pages of the tabloid press , put up a bridging loan of $5 million . |
| 7 | It had appeared in the garden of the villa one morning soon after Nour had returned for the holidays . |
| 8 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 9 | The outcome of this work , which was carried out just after candidates had enrolled for the Batch 1 courses , is still awaited . |
| 10 | The pains had begun while she was in the flat one morning soon after Brian had left for the hospital . |
| 11 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 12 | But when Katherine came to dress for the party , her dress was nowhere to be found in her wardrobe . |
| 13 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 14 | When Mary had left for the canteen , Jane asked : ‘ What was all that yes-no about ? ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps as Becker has suggested for the bourgeoisie ( Becker 1983 ) and Roxborough for the proletariat ( Roxborough 1984 ) , it is expecting too much to place the burden of revolution on the shoulders of any one class . |