Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 2 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 3 | The ‘ younger people ’ as they were known started to ready themselves for the expedition which started the next day . |
| 4 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 5 | Initially , in November , which is three months after Stavrogin was quoting Hamlet , Kirillov 's ‘ ROLE IS A FACTUAL ONE ’ — by which Dostoevsky means he ‘ volunteered to shoot himself for the common cause ’ and leave a letter claiming responsibility for Shatov 's murder , thus diverting the attention of the police from Peter Verkhovensky and the quintet . |
| 6 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 7 | Slowly , the guide bent down , as if to steel himself for the fight . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , in Orange , it was time for Christmas , and the section started to organise itself for the festivities . |
| 9 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
| 10 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 11 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 12 | Her head swam ; she shut her eyes and pressed herself against the wall , fighting to steady herself for the return trip , struggling to contain an urge to vomit . |
| 13 | Ramsay , accepting the need , wondered whether even Douglas would have the presumption to propose himself for the position . |
| 14 | In the urge to protect itself for the negative battles of the present , the party thus pulled back from its only truly positive policy for the future . |
| 15 | However , it should not be forgotten that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's colleagues and their wives had quickly learnt to reward themselves for the hardships of their long struggle for power . |
| 16 | If he gets away , you can easily have him become a nemesis figure for the adventurers in future , returning again and again to avenge himself for the loss of Juliane . |
| 17 | The merchant bank or broker will charge a commission for procuring the subscribers and may agree to subscribe itself for the balance if it fails to procure sufficient interest from its clients . |
| 18 | I urgently felt the need to sacrifice myself for the underprivileged . |
| 19 | Herbert Morrison wrote shortly before the 1933 Labour Party Conference : If the Socialist League point of view were approved by the Party it would drive us to defend ourselves for the greater part of our time against Tory allegations of Bolshevism and dictatorship . |
| 20 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 22 | ‘ The test for Neil is whether he could have done anything better to prepare himself for the task ahead . |
| 23 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 24 | Taking a few deep breaths to prepare himself for the encounter , Ybreska stepped into the middle of the road to meet his contact . |
| 25 | And he wanted to prepare himself for the daughter . |
| 26 | The utility continues to make satisfactory progress to reposition itself for the periodic price review . |
| 27 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 28 | After this she ceased to blame herself for the breakdown of their marriage , but instead expressed considerable anger towards her husband . |
| 29 | Similarly , if you have a regular tutorial at say , 11 am each Tuesday , it makes sense to set aside some part of Monday to prepare yourself for the Tuesday tutorial ( see Chapters on managing your time at college ) . |
| 30 | had you had any opportunity to prepare yourself for the sort of questions he might be asking ? |