Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The persistent tendency to cover up for our lack of effectiveness by using vague language must be strongly resisted . |
| 2 | I might get the old lady to go down for me . |
| 3 | ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . ) |
| 4 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 5 | Leave the marzipanned cake to dry out for at least 48 hrs . |
| 6 | From time to time he broke off his labours to return to the great court to look out for Tutilo returning . |
| 7 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 8 | Dyer was applauded by the diehard press to make up for his censure by the government . |
| 9 | A : I 'd be surprised if you do have a virus , but the only way to find out for sure is to use some reputable anti-virus software to examine your hard disk — F-PROT is very good and is public domain to individual , non-corporate users . |
| 10 | The only thing to watch out for is dropping them on the pavement — because they shatter ! ’ |
| 11 | Today 's match did n't reflect his past glories , he scored just 12 , but he has the whole season to make up for it . |
| 12 | Greece sought until the last moment to hold out for a higher ceiling than the 60,500 transit licences offered to Greek lorries . |
| 13 | These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing . |