Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 2 | Indeed without any wish to evade my responsibility for subsequent events , I think I may fairly claim that in everything I did in re Karen and her husband I was market-led . |
| 3 | I recently had to treat my tank for White Spot , which seems to have cleared up , but my Emperor Angelfish is still scratching , although there is no external sign of White Spot . |
| 4 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |
| 5 | He believed an , as yet unidentifiable , soccer manager was using my house for adulterous purposes with a young female on his staff . |
| 6 | Personally I have always agreed with that , but I can not now simply substitute my judgment for that of the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe . |
| 7 | Her marriage had continued to slide downhill until eventually , after being evicted from the house , she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty , and took a job as the live-in caretaker of a seedy block of flats . |
| 8 | It was only a short spell of relief , most of it spent down Channel in atrocious summer weather as I remember , but it was enough to whet my appetite for more , and the start of a long love affair with Venturous . |
| 9 | Because I just fixed my mortgage for four years with the Halifax , and it 's a total gamble fixing mortgages , by the way , if we , you know , because I do n't know where interest rates are going to go , but I , I fixed at seven point seven five percent for four years . |
| 10 | I then found my application for financial assistance for part-time study had been rejected ‘ because anthropology is not on the approved list of subjects ( in the Circular ) ’ ( Memo from HQ 1977 ) . |
| 11 | She used to pass my window for many weeks after that and not come in . |
| 12 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 13 | This subjective impression among left-wing intellectuals such as Aragon and Nizan that the Soviet experiment would in some way resolve the contradictions of the writer/intellectual ensnared in the alienating social relations of capitalism is a key factor in explaining its attractiveness for dissident French writers in the 1930s . |
| 14 | One of the characteristics of judicial review is that the supervising court does not substitute its decision for that of the public authority ; rather it leaves it to the body to make good its illegal behaviour by making a fresh decision which complies with the requirements of the law . |
| 15 | The court accepted that it should not substitute its judgment for that of the agency . |
| 16 | Lord Greene M.R. stressed that the court should not substitute its view for that of the corporation , and then proceeded to examine what the term unreasonableness meant in this context . |
| 17 | That construction is intended to ensure that the courts do not substitute their view for that of the administrator just because they believe that a different conclusion would be more reasonable . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , an improved second half performance will bolster their confidence for next week 's Division 2 crunch game against Ballymena . |
| 19 | I guess the good news has its drawback for some men . |
| 20 | CHELSEA last night moved a step closer to signing Russian international Dimitri Kharin and ending their search for chastised goalkeeper Dave Beasant 's replacement . |
| 21 | Soviet spokesmen warned the non-aligned states against succumbing to Western attempts to secure their support for American Rapid Deployment Forces . |
| 22 | it is an artists ' book of the first order , the making of which has been managed from beginning to end by the artist herself , thereby satisfying her desire for creative control over every aspect of its production . |
| 23 | Coleridge and Sara fixed their wedding for early October , and in the meantime began looking for a home . |
| 24 | Since the 1950s there has been a fifth column of British writers who demonstrate and often acknowledge their admiration for French writing , Alain Robbe-Grillet and the nouveau roman in particular . |
| 25 | This convention finds statutory confirmation in the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 which deprive the House of Lords of any legal power over financial or ‘ Money ’ Bills beyond that of delaying their passage for one month and no longer . |
| 26 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 27 | As an early priority , C&P management thoroughly reviewed its strategy for each individual business . |
| 28 | This was changed to An Nam — The Pacified South — by the Chinese who conquered them , occupied their territory for eleven centuries , and called them Annamese . |
| 29 | Peacock ( 1974 ) suggests that the appropriate view is that the current generation is choosing to sacrifice current consumption to internalize its concern for future generations and therefore can be legitimately viewed as gaining from capital expenditure the fruits of which they may not actually sample . |
| 30 | It was painful enough knowing they had both let their love for each other slip so easily away , but the speed with which he 'd filled the void she 'd left really cut into her . |