Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 2 | You know , i i it is a very fine line between er how we talk to our customers , which is why I , I , I ca n't stress enough the need for the project coordinators to talk face to face with the customer first of all , and perhaps gently lead him down some of the items in this list that the project coordinator thinks the client might not have remembered . |
| 3 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 4 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 5 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 6 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 7 | For Hitler and the Nazi leadership , it provided only the base for racial-imperialist conquest and a war of annihilation . |
| 8 | The change in definition does , however , affect the treatment of local authority expenditure ; the old definition included all local authority expenditure , whereas the new definition covers only the support for this expenditure provided by central government , i.e. it excludes expenditure which local authorities finance themselves . |
| 9 | On paper , L* looks just the ticket for the SSC — an ambitious experiment with a good pedigree , run by a famous physicist with an international set of collaborators . |
| 10 | EMIGRATION LOOKS JUST THE JOB FOR SKILLED WORKERS |
| 11 | Usefully packaged in a re-sealable bucket ( in a sealed bag ) with a measuring cup which holds exactly the salt for a gallon mix . |
| 12 | ‘ He can not have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother . ’ |
| 13 | I am glad to confirm that the disabled persons transport advisory committee , which was set up under the Transport Act 1985 , exists to provide exactly the voice for which the Hon. Member called . |
| 14 | Schmeichel failed to hold onto a weak 19th minute shot by Chelsea 's Steve Clarke , and Gavin Peacock prodded home the rebound for his third goal of the season . |
| 15 | Send off the coupon for your free T. Shirt and sponsorship form . |
| 16 | Send off the coupon for your free T. Shirt and sponsorship form . |
| 17 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 18 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 19 | They ran the most influential party journals , drew up the agenda for party conferences and congresses , and spearheaded the internecine struggle in which the parties were involved . |
| 20 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 21 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 22 | The conservatism of central and local government bureaucracy is only likely to be overcome if there is a strong , independent political movement keeping up the pressure for the legislation to be made meaningful . |
| 23 | She wore a pale blue suit , skirt slit up the thigh for combat , and a white blouse . |
| 24 | When you have researched a ley , by map , field and archive , you are then in a position to write up the material for possible publication in a magazine such as The Ley Hunter . |
| 25 | From here you depart at 5.30pm and head up the Moselle for overnight mooring at Aiken a delightful wine village overlooked by the Thurant Castle . |
| 26 | The study , produced for the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse and Alcohol Concern , indicates SSDs must catch up if they are to assess misusers and stump up the cash for community care . |
| 27 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 28 | Mona , who had her daughter Soraya and a nanny with her , also picked up the tab for expensive dinners at trendy restaurants . |
| 29 | The mayor also outlined plans which , if implemented , would have gone a long way towards mopping up the demand for houses in Derry . |
| 30 | A&M have left them to it , stumping up the money for recording and a sampler along the way . |