Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |
| 2 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 3 | You can treat me for free when you 're a doctor . " |
| 4 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 5 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 6 | Once again there are different ways in which such data are used , but all share the object of analysing the data anew , using them for different purposes than originally intended . |
| 7 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 8 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 9 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 10 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 11 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 12 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 13 | Aquatic birds that spend much of their time in water , well insulated by fat and waterproof plumage ( Figure 6.1 ) , are pre-adapted for life in cold lands ; the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas pre-adapts them for polar seas . |
| 14 | I let him keep young ones for sentimental reasons since I do n't need them for practical purposes . |
| 15 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 16 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 17 | Nature cares nothing for human definitions , after all , as Sprague de Camp points out . |
| 18 | The West must now steel itself for military action in Bosnia |
| 19 | But while the British media 's account of World Cup preparations in Italy has been dominated by the prospect of violence , British domestic youth culture has primed itself for other possibilities by looking to the Latin-influenced culture of spectatorship and style . |
| 20 | We want you for Good Money . |
| 21 | We want you for flying duties . ’ |
| 22 | Fishpool is a way to provide something for local dancers , and it 's also a chance for David and Gaynor to take hold of the creative reins . |
| 23 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 24 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 25 | He realized with a stab of regret he had never once seen her face clearly , and if he went back to seek her out he would n't know her for sure among the many daughters of the chief . |
| 26 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 27 | After tea she unpacked her shabby and much-mended clothes ( no chance of getting stockings for Christmas now , unless Felicity had a practical fit and sent her some ! ) and wrote two letters : a polite little note to Miss Henry , thanking her for past kindness , and a lengthy epistle to Gay , telling her the gloomy news . |
| 28 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 29 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 30 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |