Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Probyn , the England and Wasps prop overlooked for the Lions tour , has been called up as his replacement . |
| 2 | One year after the US invaded Panama with 30,000 troops on December 20 , 1989 , and removed General Manuel Noriega from power ( see SR Feb 1990 ) , significant issues surrounding that invasion seem destined for the dustbin of ‘ murky endings ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ He had — I tell you this in confidence , Superintendent — he had , on the occasion of the annual Parents ’ Night , doctored with alcohol the fruit punch intended for the boarders who helped serve the modest refreshments . |
| 4 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 5 | The smell of lighting barbecues drifted in , and the buzz of gentle conversation as guests returned to their villas and apartments to put the children to bed and get changed for the evening . |
| 6 | It 'll be a working holiday , but my goodness it 'll be the experience of a lifetime and to find out how you can join us stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 7 | Stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 8 | And we 're looking for two couples , four people , two couples , to travel with us , and to find out er , how you will be able to travel , and what you have to do when you get there , stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under Competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 9 | Now , we 're looking for two couples to accompany us down under , to find out how you can perhaps qualify , stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 10 | Stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 11 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 12 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 13 | He went to his old billet and the old lady living there , after welcoming him warmly , said ‘ You 've come for the instruments of course ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ They 've come for the children 's parade , ’ he said softly , motioning her to a seat . |
| 15 | When he was directly in front of Ymor he said : ‘ I 've come for the tourist . ’ |
| 16 | And that 's called erm er a special word which I 've forgotten for the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 18 | What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ? |
| 19 | Moat put considerable store in this scheme at Three Hills as the the next stage of our partnership er with the Council and erm we are committed to doing the scheme in accordance with your overall master plan that you 've adopted for the Three Hills area er our proposals will com complete the re-development of the vacant sites at Three Hills providing a further a hundred and nine properties for for social housing both for rent and for low cost home ownership . |
| 20 | Not after all you 've done for the Corporation . |
| 21 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 22 | If I manage to work out anything this lunchtime , I 'll enclose it herewith — in the meantime this is all I 've done for the Newsletter so far . |
| 23 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 24 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 25 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 27 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 28 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 29 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 30 | It shows that they 've applied for the job . |