Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angela Carter studied medieval literature at the University as a mature student in the 1960s in the English Department , where she developed her taste for folk stories that underpinned such works as The Magic Toyshop , Nights at the Circus and The Company of Wolves . |
| 2 | His daughter and her fiance are left on stage , where they confirm their love for each other with a poetry that Eliot would have once found impossible to write : |
| 3 | Having divined the source of his miseries , the bewitched victim reports to the chief 's court , where he submits his accusation for verification by the chief 's own oracle . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I understand , ’ she responded coldly , ‘ a lot more than you give me credit for . |
| 6 | ‘ I always thought Rose was deeper than you gave her credit for , ’ she says . |
| 7 | ‘ The public are quicker to shift opinion than we give them credit for . |
| 8 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 9 | And Goethe — although he retained his admiration for the Greeks , and not least for the three tragedians , right up to his death in 1832 — mostly looked in other directions for his inspiration after the unfinished drama Pandora of 1810 . |
| 10 | During his speech he made no mention of Kuwait , although he repeated his call for a ceasefire , to be followed by US-Iraqi talks and inter-Arab dialogue . |
| 11 | The criminal justice system , of course , now recognises this even more than it recognises our need for autonomy : monetary penalties are by far the most common form of penalty that it uses in its attempt to control crime . |
| 12 | Perhaps Adams was more astute than he gave him credit for . |
| 13 | The client is encouraged , and initially assisted , in developing and carrying out strategies for testing thoughts and beliefs about what might happen , e.g. ‘ If I ask my boss for a raise he 'll sack me or bite my head off . ’ , |
| 14 | ‘ And , if I asked your father for your hand , you would support me ? |
| 15 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
| 16 | If you use your card for more than four journeys an alarm will sound and you will not be able to use the lift . |
| 17 | This can pose problems if you use your loft for storage purposes . |
| 18 | If you change your mind for any reason , please telephone back to say so . |
| 19 | If you devise your item for a specific number e.g. divisible by two or four , have an alternative plan in case someone falls sick . |
| 20 | Two ideas over-large for reconciliation are fronting each other now , and there 'll be no peace until there 's been — no , ’ he checked himself , ‘ I wo n't say a settlement , but at least a temporary losing and winning that shall silence us both until we get our breath for the next bout . |
| 21 | Fortune smiled on us for , although we only had a fleeting glimpse of the sun , the rain kept off until we boarded our coach for home at 6.15pm . |
| 22 | Thus , if we restrict our attention for the moment to pupils for whom a statement is made , the proportion ranges across LEAs from less than 1 per cent of the school population to nearly 3 per cent . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore ( Mr. Powell ) will tackle that issue later if we reach his subject for debate . |
| 24 | The lawyers commented that the Minister was giving detainees the message that if they wanted their demand for freedom to be taken seriously they had to go on hunger strike and become very ill . |
| 25 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 26 | Taking his curtain calls after a successful speech , he drew her to him by the hand and entwined his arms with hers until she gently shook him off , whereupon he enjoyed his triumph for a while manfully alone , until he again resorted to his wife Glenys , going to fetch her , leading her again by the hand , and holding her by the waist . |
| 27 | I hope he scores a try and if he keeps his place for the Five Nations at my expense , good luck to him . ’ |
| 28 | Is a defendant who fails even to consider that a woman might not be consenting still to be acquitted if he takes her consent for granted ? |
| 29 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 30 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |