Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 2 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 3 | It 's also the fact that I know for a fact , I know for a fact that she 's very frightened of his temper when it happens . |
| 4 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 5 | Realizing what they represented , he added quickly , ‘ Not that I think for a moment that you … though , of course , ’ he floundered ever deeper , ‘ naturally , a man like , you , presentable and so forth , you probably have several … ’ |
| 6 | They 'd have registered the fact that I work for an advertising agency , and marked me accordingly : ‘ I do think essentially he 's a popular artist , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 8 | She so wanted grandparents , that she appealed for a couple in the local paper to act as adopted granny and grandad . |
| 9 | Ven made no move to detain her , not that she had for a second considered that he might . |
| 10 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 11 | It was as she was passing through the drawing-room that she paused for a moment to glance round admiringly at the décor . |
| 12 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 13 | Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood . |
| 14 | One of the first things you 'll realise is that you work for an organisation that has to react and respond rapidly to changing circumstances . |
| 15 | Wha what is it that you do for a living ? |
| 16 | Here , the icon that you specify for a program can come from a different program if you wish . |
| 17 | But it was on days like these that one longed for a friend , hoped for a caller . |
| 18 | But that that we ask for an exploration of the feasibility of widening the use of homes into nursing care , very sheltered accommodation , apartment style accommodation etcetera . |
| 19 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |
| 20 | Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this . |
| 21 | The major difference between the American and British systems is that we vote for an MP , the party with the most MPs wins and its leader moves into Number Ten . |
| 22 | Chairman I have an amendment to that motion , because , because I believe it 's important that we start to identify a lot of councils publish at the end of the year for public consumption a list of the allowances drawn by members , and I think that would be very useful and I would make , as an amendment , I would , would add to the proposal put by Mr that we call for a report to be pu er , to be presented to us of the amounts of allowances drawn by members , each member |
| 23 | Many of these Whig Jacobite tracts can be said to reflect commonwealth principles , in the sense that they argued for a monarchy which would be severely limited . |
| 24 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |
| 25 | I realise that they looked for a family atmosphere , but is imposing this solution in such an arbitrary way really in the best interests of the game ? |
| 26 | I mean t to for the cooking that they did for a pub it was and we had duckling and salmon , poached |
| 27 | The 1965 changes were the first significant constitutional development since 1957 , in that they provided for a review of the purposes and activities of the Community , incorporating also a schedule for a single European Community by 1970 . |
| 28 | The next two chapters use case studies to expand the framework that they provide for an appreciation of the variety among places , without explicit recognition of the interactions with the physical and built environments ( although both are implicit , especially in the first ) . |
| 29 | The value of Black 's theory lies in the fact that it allows for a conception of metaphor as the interaction between two discourses , but like Goodman 's concept of imperial appropriation , it has overtones of subjugation . |
| 30 | Some ministers perhaps keep it on because they feel that it caters for a section of the adult church with whom they are unwilling to compromise in the sermon . |