Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 2 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 3 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 4 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 6 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 7 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 8 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 9 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 10 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 11 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 12 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 13 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 14 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 15 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 16 | Professor Bernard Isaacs of Birmingham University has said : ‘ If you design for the young , you exclude the old . |
| 17 | Note that if you go for the unfiltered system , water changes must be regular . |
| 18 | As I 've said the Policy Committee guideline was that we should set a budget within the range seventy two million to seventy three point three million , which means at the lower level , if you go for the lower level er to which says for ninety four five about almost exactly a million pounds . |
| 19 | If you go for the higher limit , then that allows you to go with the growth of approximately three hundred thousand . |
| 20 | ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says . |
| 21 | So you can go , go to sleep if you want for the next minute to erm but because you will need to know this quoick transformation for your Q M project , you do want , may just want to note it down . |
| 22 | If we write for the current value of ( it will be zero unless is basic ) , we have seen that , when , we can still satisfy ( 8.1 ) with where for reverse , for forward and zero for all other variables . |
| 23 | Mary Barton continues : ‘ If we pray for the dead , Sir , will God hear us ? ’ , |
| 24 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 25 | Trent waited until they made for the upriver side , then charged forward uncaring . |
| 26 | If it runs for the ten years , they 're going to out-perform the banks and building societies , and they 're going to be very happy . |
| 27 | Earlier Land Rovers with the smaller wheel studs , were designed to carry most of the load on the large hole in the centre , so fitting Range Rover wheels , which carry the loading on the studs , is not on unless you change for the later SIII type hubs . |
| 28 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 29 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |