Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 2 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 3 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 4 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 5 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 6 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 7 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 8 | I think Mum made it for me . |
| 9 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 10 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 11 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 12 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 13 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 14 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 15 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 16 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 17 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
| 18 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 19 | Well my mum got it for |
| 20 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 21 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |
| 22 | Bratby had obtained permission to paint in the roof area of the Victoria and Albert Museum and there Minton visited him for tutorials . |
| 23 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 24 | Musicians knock 'em for six |
| 25 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 26 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 27 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 28 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 29 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 30 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |