Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 2 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 3 | GREAT Portland Estates boss Richard Peskin is warning shareholders to brace themselves for a dividend cut next year . |
| 4 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 5 | Musicians knock 'em for six |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 9 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |
| 10 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 11 | His deep eyes regarded her for a moment , then he looked at Rory . |
| 12 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 13 | Candidates using them for project or course work may have an advantage if spelling is one of the skills being tested . |
| 14 | The need to prepare schools and help to help schools prepare themselves for the erm review of the national curriculum the changes that they will have to deal with and in particular I think , erm to help secondary schools to come to terms with changes in key stage four and the likely erm opportunities there will be for a more diverse curriculum including eventually er the opportunities for more vocational programmes in schools and to assist schools |
| 15 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 16 | Petal DK , a long established yarn in 100g balls with a lustre effect has four new designs to support it for 1992 . |
| 17 | His eyes surveyed her for a moment . |
| 18 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 19 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 20 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
| 21 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 22 | She came home to Oxford at weekends , and she and Eleanor and Anna spent Saturdays together , and often the husbands joined them for supper . |
| 23 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 24 | ANIMATIONS New series of Wild Life images COMPUTERS Buying one for your machine GIFTS Some seasonable inspiration |
| 25 | Alter this technique had been invented , it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines . |
| 26 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 27 | Much as their fans loved them for all their quirks , the aesthetics and comfort of a ground did not cross the mind of many football directors . |
| 28 | His final point about trust is fair enough , it sounds like he has had a gutful of Leeds fans berating him for sticking to his guns . |
| 29 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 30 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |