Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [pron] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 2 | All the Secretaries of State had educational training and experience in government to fit them for their posts . |
| 3 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |
| 4 | Certain names wish to withdraw these funds from Lloyd 's , as not being within the terms governing their premium trust funds , in order to use them for their personal benefit . |
| 5 | The notion is analogous to our understanding that we need to save up money in order to exchange it for something we wish to buy . |
| 6 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 7 | Labour has carried out a trawl of Departments in order to find something for their Labour colleagues in Newcastle to do and to justify giving them a huge bureaucracy and their own budget . |
| 8 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 9 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |