Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 2 | So if the carriages are at the right , you must set them for an anti-clockwise circle , if they 're at the left , for a clockwise circle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 3 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 4 | President Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania warned on May 18 , in an address to the Lithuanian Supreme Council , that the republic should brace itself for a renewed clampdown by Soviet armed forces in the light of " armed provocations " along the republic 's borders . |
| 5 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 6 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'll swap you for an old X T Myrtle |
| 9 | For a meal , and like , we were really keen to try this and everything , and we , we did n't , we sort of kept saying , oh shall we open this bottle tonight , and they said no , we 'll save it for a special occasion . |
| 10 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 11 | Mm , they 'll last him for a long , long time . |
| 12 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 13 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 14 | Confusion was muddling her responses , putting up barriers where she 'd give anything for a free and open path forward … |
| 15 | Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while . |
| 16 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 17 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 18 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 19 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 20 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
| 21 | The water for drinking they used to collect from the gutters and erm it used to go into big barrels and then they used to boil it for a long while . |
| 22 | These emotions may disturb you for a little while , but they are simply a natural response to the trauma of death and they will usually pass with time . |
| 23 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 24 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 25 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |
| 26 | I wonder what price the bookies would give us for a Central South treble ; that 's Oxford to win the Boat Race , Gloucester to reach the Cup Final and Swindon to beat West Brom . |
| 27 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 28 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 29 | Simon Foreman would sell anything for a great price and not ask any questions . |
| 30 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |