Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the sort of feature anyone half handy can make for their own water garden . |
| 2 | It does not make for your typical comic fare . |
| 3 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 4 | He taught her history : the story of Pelopidas and Epaminondas ; he taught her geography , taking a shovel and pail of water into the garden , where he would build for her instructive peninsulas , islands , gulfs and promontories . |
| 5 | Young people frequently dismiss remarks which older people may make about their impending or eventual death . |
| 6 | If it is correct that our trilobite lived above the sea bottom , actively swimming in the water , there are certain predictions we can make about its geological occurrence which can be tested by looking in the rocks . |
| 7 | What do you want as your little birthday present ? |
| 8 | In another sexual adventure , Is My Palm Read ? , a palm-reader turns out the lights on her so that he can leer through her see-through skirt and blouse . |
| 9 | They sauntered and stopped without warning and she had to duck and weave through their chattering bunches . |
| 10 | Plasmids do not construct for themselves special protein coats to enable them to survive outside their host cells , but can be transmitted from one bacterial cell to another if those cells come into contact . |
| 11 | An interesting alternative is a superconducting electron accelerator , which can often compensate for its limited peak current by combination of exceptional beam quality , high stability and very long duty cycle . |
| 12 | A federal district court in Washington D.C. ruled on May 14 that the large accounting practice of Price Waterhouse should compensate for its earlier discrimination against Ann Hopkins , a former employee , by awarding her a partnership in the firm . |
| 13 | Serfdom survived in Russia , as in Rumania , chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population , where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services , or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market . |
| 14 | School and university still had n't changed me as much as they had ; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect . |
| 15 | He could compensate for his low official pay by means of the strings he could pull in conjunction with the other few rich peasants in the commune . |
| 16 | Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss . |
| 17 | Twenty-one years later at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky , Sir Ivor can still laugh about it all . |
| 18 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 19 | She maintained links with the Quakers but made a point of religious independence : ‘ As I am not a member of any community , no society can answer for my irregular conduct . ’ |
| 20 | When this study was mounted participants were advised in writing that all findings would be reported to their medical practitioner , whom they should consult for their individual results . |
| 21 | let's think about what this means for education , let's er , work out how you learn , okay . |
| 22 | His latest series is probably his best yet and will make many people stop and think about their own lives and relationships . |
| 23 | It is through these means that the people , our people , all the people in this city many of them bound together and then able to go out and think about their civic lives if you like , their civic , the way th that this council works perhaps and take part much more in just go in and putting little crosses on pieces of paper maybe . |
| 24 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 25 | As feminists , we need to have a way of looking at this work which makes us think about whose shattered lives and suffering produced the money used to pay her for her paintings — namely the poor rural workers of Britain and Ireland and the enslaved African peoples working in the West Indies and the American colonies . |
| 26 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |
| 27 | Tim Smith converted , the cherry and whites made whoopee but what does the coach think about it all ? |
| 28 | ‘ It 's all so ridiculous that we 're not going to even think about it any more , ’ she said firmly , hiding her fears . |
| 29 | I I 'm sorry I just take that as automatic , I do n't even think about it any more . |
| 30 | I remember that , remember the feeling of his warm , cooling , sunlit juice on my hand , slippy becoming sticky , but I ca n't think about it any more without thinking of gorilla man and the little guy tied to the chair . |