Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 2 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 3 | The Sheikha usually made them for her . |
| 4 | It helps to create a pattern in the subconscious mind so that , as you go about your routine actions , the mind automatically prepares itself for sleep . |
| 5 | Those who practise these branches of study often mistake them for spheres of knowledge when they are more accurately seen as examples of dialectic or rhetoric — ideas which may be better aired in talk . |
| 6 | As we shall see later the social anthropologist 's view of society as a network of person-to-person relationships almost takes it for granted that all human interactions can be broken down into elements of binary exchange of this kind . |
| 7 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 8 | This newly created honourary office carried with it ex officio membership of the executive committee so that , it was hoped Ayliffe 's years of experience would not be wholly lost to the Association by his decision not to offer himself for reelection as President . |
| 9 | " When I go on holiday Con always takes him for a week or two and he has never mentioned any … anything unusual … in that way . " |
| 10 | That bloke probably took it for a ride he said . |
| 11 | It also it is a fact that the people that you do tend to lend the equipment out to take it for granted that you are also a highly qualified video sort of technician and if anything goes wrong , they ring you up and say ‘ What plug goes where , and why is n't this working ’ and why should you if you 're working run down to some conference in the John Hall Room and try and sort out something for these people . |
| 12 | If IBM actually endorses it for the Presentation Manager it will become a second standard ! |
| 13 | In order to help us I think in our discussions , it seems to me that , I think we ought to write formally to the County Council and to the District Council actually asking them for more details of their consideration for what they intend to do about parishes . |
| 14 | His mother , also dead , was really German , but she had called herself Austrian in an impulse of cowardice that Stephen rather cherished her for . |
| 15 | Customs successfully assessed it for VAT on the payment ( supply ) because the time of supply was the date of receipt in 1991 . |
| 16 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 17 | And Watford boss Steve Perryman still backed them for promotion . |
| 18 | The Last Post also does it for me ! |
| 19 | Understandably , many of his old flock in Kidderminster severely criticised him for this . |
| 20 | The Conservative government has deprived North Tyneside of £300m in grant money since 1980 , What a cheek now to ask me for a donation . |
| 21 | Mr today congratulated me for slapping Anthony . |
| 22 | In the aftershock , the communists ' allies there deserted them for Solidarity . |
| 23 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 24 | But how does a person normally prepare himself for frightening and distressing events ? |
| 25 | Owen normally took them for granted . |
| 26 | His talents and character perfectly qualified him for his role and his motives expressed ‘ an awful sense of his duty as a Christian ’ . |
| 27 | There were enough provisions here to feed her for a week — and in far more luxury than she would have dreamt of buying for herself . |
| 28 | Although most of this chapter has been given over to an exposition of the policy inefficacy proposition which was grounded in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework where variations in the absolute price level figure prominently , the reader should note that many new classical writers simply take it for granted that , in a competitive economy , markets clear on average over time . |
| 29 | of the two wooden chairs at the kitchen table and looked rather helplessly at the card with its seven clearly written digits , then glanced round as if seeking inspiration where to put it for safe keeping . |
| 30 | Would those older cadets actually report him for such an infringement , on Lexandro 's part , of cousinly courtesy ? |