Example sentences of "for [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What I would n't give for Jim to do something like this — just occasionally .
2 That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such .
3 Sir John Ure , commissioner general of the British pavilion , is also confident that Expo will succeed , but injects a note of caution : ‘ It 's a very tall order for Spain to mount something like this .
4 Later , with the Single European Act and British membership of the exchange rate mechanism — the right hon. Member for Finchley took us into that — our sovereignty was further eroded .
5 It was amusing for Charles to see him in this state , his usual poise unbalanced by childlike curiosity .
6 That said his fitness has to be 100% for Wilko to play him at all , and he clearly is liable to get himself sent off .
7 She had no wish for Doreen to accompany them during this rare opportunity to be alone with Silas ; then she sighed with relief as his next words rang like bells in her ears .
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