Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 2 | Twelve years after the Republicans moved into the White House and 13 months after the Arkansas governor launched his long-shot bid to win it back for the Democrats , the man on the defensive was Mr Bush . |
| 3 | Shiona thought disapprovingly , as she crossed to the coffee-maker to switch it on for herself . |
| 4 | In regga a producer frequently utilises the same backing track for several different vocals , but only Steely & Clevie would dare let them all play at once on a dub , allowing several different melodies to fight it out for dominance of a different rhythm . |
| 5 | Did I think it would be a wise move or should she try to persuade Meredith to keep her on for Christmas ? |
| 6 | DENNIS JENKIN EXPLAINS HOW YOU CAN USE YOUR SPREADSHEET TO WORK IT OUT FOR YOU . |
| 7 | " In that case we must ask St Anthony to get it back for us . |
| 8 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 9 | In the thirtieth minute , Gary Weaving scored what looked like a perfectly good goal , only for the linesman to rule it out for offside , to everyone 's dismay . |
| 10 | To have it in er Daily Post , The Post is the morning one The Echo 's the evening to have it in for one day in The Post and The Echo , how much ? |
| 11 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 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 | But it was left to Oxford Hawks in the gold shirts and Gloucester City in the red to battle it out for the minor places in a Central South derby . |
| 14 | Now in a big department store , say like Debenhams , you could go in , and you could select your cloth and get the ladies round the back to make it up for you . |
| 15 | We come now to vote on this addendum to deliverance n number four and , since it is in print , we do n't need to ask the clerk to read it out for us , so therefore as , ask those who wish to vote for this addendum would you please stand . |
| 16 | ‘ While you are waiting for God to write it down for you in capital letters , ’ Anna had shouted finally , exasperated out of all diplomacy , ‘ I shall decide for you both . |
| 17 | Indeed , the proposed development has been thrown into doubt with the Secretary of State 's decision to call it in for a public inquiry following representations from environmental pressure groups objecting to the scheme 's architectural quality . |
| 18 | The data is then made public ; the full dataset and the commands to set it up for processing by the statistical package SPSS- X can be obtained from the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex for the cost of processing . |
| 19 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 20 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 21 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 22 | Major window suppliers such as Boulton & Paul , Crittalls and John Carr will supply these in a wide range of standard sizes ; or you may also be able to get a local joinery firm to make them up for you . |
| 23 | ‘ I might try and get the superintendent of this building to check it over for us later on this morning . ’ |
| 24 | A decade ago , NEC Corp surged past Motorola Inc and Texas Instruments Inc to become the world 's largest chipmaker , and Japan has held the title ever since — until 1991 , when according to Dataquest , Intel Corp grew 26% to win it back for the US . |
| 25 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 26 | and er anyway our Dawn says I 'm not paying all that bloody money for babe to rip it off for when |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll be back in an hour to take you down for a tour of the lodge and to meet Mrs Foster . |
| 28 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 29 | If you do decide to offer items to the media , your organisation or client 's own products are by far the best giveaways , for they enable the producer , journalist or researcher to try them out for themselves before featuring or writing about them . |
| 30 | But " thinking like a scientist " sooner or later involves greater autonomy , a bigger share of the decision-making : not simply discussing with the teacher and learning to guess from his facial expressions or other clues what the " right " answer might be , but actually wrestling unprompted with the methodology and materials in order to find it out for oneself . |