Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 3 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 4 | It does n't cost you any more , you just throw them in for free . |
| 5 | They 're all just trying to push them in for free . |
| 6 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 7 | Suppose I tell them that you want to escort me tonight for personal reasons ? ’ |
| 8 | The countries of the Third World in particular need them desperately for medical purposes , as the synthesized drugs are so expensive . |
| 9 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 10 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 11 | This is because you will have developed , without necessarily ever having thought about it , some learning style preferences that equip you better for certain stages in the cycle than for others . |
| 12 | ‘ And I should know , having brought you up for twenty-odd years . |
| 13 | But your earnings , or savings , rule you out for Legal Aid , and you 're reluctant to splurge money on lawyers . |
| 14 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 15 | Are you here for good ? |
| 16 | By return we will rush you your membership details , plus the latest copy of Lotus User Forum , and enrol you immediately for free technical support from our product experts . |
| 17 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 18 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 19 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 20 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 21 | Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 23 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 24 | The sun , he thought , had set on them now for sure . |
| 25 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 26 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 27 | I like them particularly for Chunky machines which of course do not have a garter carriage . |
| 28 | She did not immediately come back with an answer , but looked at him steadily for some seconds before she said , ‘ That 's why you think you 've got me here for good , is n't it , Father ? |
| 29 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 30 | We 'll let him in for free ! |