Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 2 | It is not just a question of exchanging one for the other . |
| 3 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 4 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 5 | Cos you 've got to pay the agent a fee for finding it for you . |
| 6 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 7 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 8 | Confuse a waitress by asking her for a Big Mac and chips ? |
| 9 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 10 | Always flatten angelica with the blade of a knife before using it for decoration . |
| 11 | It 's just a matter of hoarding them for a discount on your Sovereign holiday . |
| 12 | Hopefully , however , there will be plenty of others sailing , and you can learn a lot by watching them for a while . |
| 13 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 14 | When you have n't got no one , you have to , sort of like find a way of doing it for yourself and it 's much harder . |
| 15 | This speech style urged on little girls is , however , a way of preparing them for their subordinate place in adult society . |
| 16 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 17 | Their two-year project initially involves the implementation of software on a massively parallel Single Instruction , Multiple Data system , with a view to converting it for Multiple Instruction , Multiple Data systems at a later date . |
| 18 | Over the years various attempts will have been made to insulate houses like these , but these are unlikely to match modern standards , and it will pay you to check out your existing level of insulation , with a view to improving it for the future . |
| 19 | We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’ |
| 20 | Though they can not detain us here , an examination of them could well be a step towards dispelling them for ever . |
| 21 | " There 's a regulation about using it for private matters . " |