Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |
| 2 | It followed radiotherapy to treat her for cancer . |
| 3 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 4 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 5 | He went upstairs to his shattered bedroom to fetch it for Harry . |
| 6 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 7 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 8 | That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house . |
| 9 | The cub became so domesticated he had to be put through a special programme to prepare him for life in his natural habitat . |
| 10 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 11 | Mada Joyce expected Nana to trust her for goods from the store , but never expected to pay . |
| 12 | one who steals bodies from cemeteries to sell them for dissection , like Jerry Cruncher in TTC . |
| 13 | Instead , Nayim 's cutback from the byline on the left enabled Lineker to win it for Tottenham . |
| 14 | The question is whether the prohibition on alienating the land followed by the exhortation to keep it for descendants amounts to a trust . |
| 15 | ‘ We took the liberty of asking our friend Percy Hoskins to join us for dinner . |
| 16 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 17 | JESCOMEA , the east Asian Jesuit communications group , plans to provide audiovisuals and technology to Cambodian refugees to prepare them for repatriation . |
| 18 | Phil Taylor beat Phil Bolton to keep Northumberland 's hopes alive but Caldy 's Ray Hughes and Jan Higginbotham of Bramhall both won and Jamie Curtis of Didsbury got a half to clinch it for Cheshire . |
| 19 | You see he 's and then he had the cheek to charge me for insurance ! |
| 20 | In their place , he has advocated a more activist government role in the economy , by increasing public works spending , cutting middle-class taxes and retraining workers to prepare them for competition in the global marketplace . |
| 21 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |
| 22 | He sent a copy to Hall , with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition . |
| 23 | Magistrate Daphne Wickham freed Bridges , 20 , at London 's Thames court after finding there was insufficient evidence to send him for trial . |
| 24 | The BBC subsequently bought the broadcasting rights to the play and commissioned David Whitaker to adapt it for Television . |
| 25 | Lear had managed to attract 175 subscribers for the Parrots but had not the temperament or the means to press them for payment . |
| 26 | Bowe will be stripped of the WBC version of his title if he fails to agree to honour his contract for a defence against Lewis by January 2 — having already turned down what Lewis termed as a ‘ smack in the face ’ offer to fight him for $3 million . |
| 27 | I may persuade Fräulein Aschmann to join me for tea at the Franz Joseph . |
| 28 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 29 | So ask your GP to refer you for counselling . |
| 30 | We 've managed to hire the jackets the Salopettes the ski glasses the socks I 've sorted out , I 've told nan to buy you for Christmas . |