Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 2 | When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time . |
| 3 | He sounded depressed by the thought , but then cheered himself up by asking me for a beer . |
| 4 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 5 | ‘ By asking you for the answer . |
| 6 | ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels . |
| 7 | Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program . |
| 8 | By nominating you for a building society mortgage under the Support Lending Scheme which is designed to help first-time buyers . |
| 9 | Hopefully , however , there will be plenty of others sailing , and you can learn a lot by watching them for a while . |
| 10 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 11 | They 've economised by reducing it for the handout . |
| 12 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |