Example sentences of "[vb base] for [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often fear for you in many ways , quite unreasonably it may be . |
| 2 | A more healthy statistic is that British companies account for one in three of the firms selling programs for microcomputers in this country . |
| 3 | Tom O'Connor , Chairman of the CBI 's Smaller Firms Council , said : ‘ In manufacturing alone , smaller firms account for one in three jobs and a quarter of the total output . |
| 4 | But Mr Westbrook adds : ‘ There are occasions when we might invoice a customer in Austrian schillings , bank it in a DM bank account and yet account for it in sterling . ’ |
| 5 | The central objective was to establish the kinds of actions and organisations that people typically make for themselves in this kind of social and spatial environment . |
| 6 | I would like to thank you all at this time on behalf of the Association and the sport we represent for all your efforts you make for us in an unpaid capacity and time given voluntary to all . |
| 7 | ‘ The future of the capercaillie will depend on how good a habitat we provide for them in our new forests , ’ he said . |
| 8 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 9 | Very interesting to have a review from you of the O D A's work , both with regard to central and Eastern Europe and the developing world and I 'm sure I speak for everybody in saying we are delighted minister that you spent the third part of your , your speech looking at the U N convention on the rights of the child which as you rightly say , is very close to the heart of Save The Children . |
| 10 | Parliament must be well aware of the great burden that is imposed on senior ministers , who not only take charge of their departments but also speak for them in Parliament , attend meetings of the Cabinet and its committees , and see to their constituency affairs if they are members of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 12 | If I make a black man sweep up my trash , empty my dustbins , wash the vomit from my floor and kill for me in my imperialist wars … well , what do you think ? |
| 13 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 14 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 15 | Reputations count for nothing in this game . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ My children wait for me in London , I will have to leave soon . ’ |
| 17 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 18 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 19 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 20 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 21 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 22 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 23 | Look for it in larger supermarkets or delicatessens . |
| 24 | Having found the appropriate class number from the card , look for it in the subject or classified catalogue and flick through the cards of that particular number . |
| 25 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
| 26 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 27 | Saussure illustrates these principles with a diagram ( 1974 : l 12 ) , which may help to clarify his point : The two bands of wavy lines A and B stand for what in a pre-linguistic state would be two continua : respectively an ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ and ‘ the equally vague plane of sounds ’ . |
| 28 | To help your GP prescribe for you in the best possible way , from April 1991 , what is called an ‘ indicative prescribing scheme ’ will be introduced . |
| 29 | She unwrapped it and it was the prince 's ruby , set for her in a ring . |
| 30 | Sometimes I 'm rather greedy and I do eat more than I should , and then you pay for it in the end . |