Example sentences of "for [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 4 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 5 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 6 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 7 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 8 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 9 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 10 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 11 | In general L and P are not equal and it is therefore reasonable to ask if there are theoretical reasons for favouring one over the other . |
| 12 | By the time he came to work with Lawford , Sinatra 's reputation for roughing it with the press was already growing . |
| 13 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 14 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 15 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
| 16 | Draping an arm about Seb 's shoulders , Noah said , ‘ Thank you for warning us of the magistrate 's approach , Seb . |
| 17 | She had accepted that he had had grounds for dismissing her at the time , considering the state of that little radio station 's finances . |
| 18 | Each local authority was required to estimate the needs of primary , secondary and further education in its area , and to submit plans for meeting them to the ministry . |
| 19 | By the end of the 1850s the state had an additional reason for addressing itself to the fate of priests . |
| 20 | To hurt Thérèse back for robbing her of the lady in the woods . |
| 21 | ‘ If anyone 's to blame , it 's me , for pushing her over the edge . |
| 22 | I am indebted to husband John for pushing me into the purchase at a time I obviously needed the machine but was not very full of vim and zip to get it and learn it . |
| 23 | Yet both museums blame the politicians for pushing them to the edge . |
| 24 | That is now the task of the Chief of Defence Staff and his Central Staff , who are responsible for formulating national military strategy , and for expressing it to the government of the day and within the Whitehall market-place . |
| 25 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 26 | Archaeology is the principal source of data for informing us about the manner in which these changes took place , and how man adapted-to the revolutionary changes occurring in society . |
| 27 | She hated the school for forcing her through the mockery of inquiry . |
| 28 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 29 | Again , many thanks for providing me with the opportunity to meet the Committee , it was very helpful . |
| 30 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |