Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona Richmond , who used to perform sexual test drives for men for one of Paul Raymond 's raunchy magazines , shared a bath with the Palace players . |
| 2 | It recently announced contract wins worth £6.3m for hospital developments at Haywards Heath and Bradford . |
| 3 | In this action the plaintiff , Anna Jane sues for damages for serious injuries she received in a motor car accident on the sixth of June , nineteen eighty seven . |
| 4 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |
| 5 | He looks through keyholes for a living . |
| 6 | They 're going overland by motorbike ; it 's all in aid of SNAP the charity that stands for Support for the Sick Newborn and their Parents at the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 7 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 8 | However , in the case of roll-up funds any gain on realisation counts as income for a UK taxpayer . |
| 9 | John Daubney is no fool and has sought the solution because he , like many others , looks for reasons for unexpected noises occurring at 3 a. m. in the morning . |
| 10 | The company looks for demand for board-level products to continue — OEM customers for these have included E-Systems Inc , Polaroid Corp , General Electric Co Inc , Amdahl Corp , Encore Computer Corp , Xerox Corp and Thomson-CSF SA . |
| 11 | This relationship stands after adjustment for a number of factors including age , left ventricular function , radiological findings and exercise-induced ST changes and duration . |
| 12 | We can all get a chuckle over that the fact that Microsoft is going to refuse to renew the cross-licence it has with IBM for Windows and NT after it expires next year . |
| 13 | Peter has with CCG for the past 2 years and also has 20 years experience in servicing ‘ blue chip ’ clients and business development . |
| 14 | Occasionally the whole class dissolves into hysterics for about five minutes and then refuses to tell me what I have said . |
| 15 | I shall be talking services today and dealing with Clare from industries like Boots and who discard their waste waters into sewers for treatment . |
| 16 | Having considered the intrinsic nature of the problem presented in this appeal , and having consulted the relevant authorities , my conclusion … is that an action lies in negligence for damages in respect of purely economic loss , provided that it was a reasonably foreseeable and direct consequence of failure in a duty of care . |
| 17 | Underwater , their nymph is just as efficient a predator and unlike the roaming adult , it lies in ambush for other insect nymphs , and larvae , for other aquatic bugs , and even for young fish fry . |
| 18 | Earthquake experts like to talk about what lies in store for New York City . |
| 19 | It 's too early to tell what lies in store for The Cranberries . |
| 20 | TWO former Barnsley team-mates kicked off the new season with mixed emotions — wondering just what lies in store for them . |
| 21 | Whatever the entry says is what lies in store for the opener . |
| 22 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |
| 23 | This aggressive cruelty usually lies in wait for some provocation . |
| 24 | Once the trap is complete the little animal burrows into the bottom of the pit and there lies in wait for unsuspecting prey . |
| 25 | Disappointment , again , lies in wait for them . |
| 26 | It conceals , itself , and lies in wait for an unsuspecting moth . |
| 27 | Bedbug , which is a true bug , of the order Hemiptera , and which lies in wait for warm , still bodies . |
| 28 | Death or injury lies in wait for the imprudent in Brobdingnagian chasms below . |
| 29 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 30 | But the history of his life so far shows ( and he freely admits it ) that old John Barleycorn lies in wait for him with implacable patience . |