Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 3 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 4 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 5 | The NCF opposed the Home Office scheme on the grounds that , by performing work of national importance , objectors would merely be releasing someone else for military service — ‘ killing by proxy ’ . |
| 6 | Suppose I tell them that you want to escort me tonight for personal reasons ? ’ |
| 7 | The countries of the Third World in particular need them desperately for medical purposes , as the synthesized drugs are so expensive . |
| 8 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 9 | This is because you will have developed , without necessarily ever having thought about it , some learning style preferences that equip you better for certain stages in the cycle than for others . |
| 10 | ‘ And I should know , having brought you up for twenty-odd years . |
| 11 | But your earnings , or savings , rule you out for Legal Aid , and you 're reluctant to splurge money on lawyers . |
| 12 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 13 | The BBC had its own foreign correspondents but none yet for domestic news . |
| 14 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 16 | He drove in a goal and then laid one on for German driver Michael Schumacher . |
| 17 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 18 | One up for American scholarship . |
| 19 | Or at least take one out for old Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini … ’ |
| 20 | We 're putting something out for public debate and we 've got to get it out now . ’ |
| 21 | Finally horseracing … and Cheltenham rolled out another vintage year this week … a good one too for local horses and trainers . |
| 22 | Finally horseracing … and Cheltenham rolled out another vintage year this week … a good one too for local horses and trainers . |
| 23 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 24 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 25 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |
| 26 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 27 | I like them particularly for Chunky machines which of course do not have a garter carriage . |
| 28 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 29 | In the ensuing pandemonium the young musicians played on , but Matron came and took Anna away , scolding her gently for bad behaviour which would not be tolerated once she was settled in . |
| 30 | An academic takes him away for extensive intelligence tests , but he becomes disruptive and eventually opts to return home . |