Example sentences of "for [pers pn] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 2 | It seems that they can be market counterparties even if the firm acts only as their agent and , indeed , even if the firm is acting for them on a discretionary basis . |
| 3 | A bond began to be formed when they asked Martin to place protection for them on an icy pitch just below the summit . |
| 4 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 5 | He was good enough to organize a complimentary flight for me on the Imperial Airways ' flying boat which plied the sea and air routes between Long Island Sound and Bermuda several times each week . |
| 6 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 7 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
| 8 | Each colourful Flower Fairy is beautifully portrayed for you on a high quality porcelain plate and expertly finished with a rim of 22-carat gold . |
| 9 | I am pleased to inform you that a place has been reserved for you on the above course . |
| 10 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 11 | Legal sources said an underground cell was being prepared for him on a maximum security row at the federal penitentiary in Marion , Illinois , America 's most chilling jail . |
| 12 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 13 | If Paul Fisher , another rich escapee from the smog , was hoping to drag his native city into the line of 1746 fashion , he chose the wrong architect when he asked Isaac Ware to design Clifton Hill House for him on an awkward shelf of eastward-facing garden . |
| 14 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 15 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 16 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 17 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 18 | But it 's basically down on the down on the first floor , we 've set aside a a room which erm the people from the Occupational Health Centre here in Harlow , come up and do vision screening for us on a regular basis they come when do they come ? |
| 19 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |