Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Second , Compact involves students in setting and monitoring their own goals and hence encourages them to take responsibility for their own success or failure . |
| 2 | The man beckoned to me as I stood around vaguely , and asked me to fetch cognac for him , vodka with ice for his wife and … what for Nell ? |
| 3 | In 1810 Miss Weeton wrote to her brother : ‘ Mr. Green , the artist , requested me to stand Godmother for his child on Thursday last ( 11th October ) . |
| 4 | We try to encourage them to take responsibilioty for themselves , and take part in community problems and wider issues . |
| 5 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 6 | Their offices were lucrative , and the king often used them to make provision for those who had a claim upon his bounty . |
| 7 | The Parish Council urge you to refuse consent for this development because : |
| 8 | He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time . |
| 9 | The RSPCA want us to take responsibility for our rubbish … and take it home … out of harms way . |
| 10 | To the extent the seller uses it to manufacture stock for the buyer ahead of any orders he does so at his own risk . |
| 11 | The payoffs for being a victim are simple : it allows us to avoid responsibility for our lives , to wallow in self-pity rather than taking care of ourselves , and to punish others . |
| 12 | Bonds of this type were not entirely unprecedented ; in 1466 , for example , during the minority of James III , the Boyds had used them to create support for their seizure of the young king , and then dropped their allies once they had achieved their end . |
| 13 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
| 14 | Tell them to have liver for lunch . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 're expecting me to handle food for — for how many ? ’ |
| 16 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 17 | October was the month to ‘ plant out suckers of lilacs , roses and such other flowering trees and shrubs which are propagated in this way ’ and the gardener was advised to leave them to gain strength for two years in the nursery before placing them in a permanent position . |
| 18 | The intimate relationship of Blackpool with the Wakes Weeks towns had enabled it to raise capital for its piers , Winter Gardens and other improvements . |
| 19 | That thought prompted me to ask Posi for a routine sweep for bugs . |
| 20 | Ken sent a pastoral letter to his clergy asking them to collect money for their relief , and , though his stipend was among the lowest of those of the English bishops , himself contributed £4000 . |
| 21 | This means that one should never put one 's Japanese counterpart in a position that will force him to accept blame for a project going wrong , being delayed , etc . |
| 22 | But Hartington soon became alarmed at the plans to give increased powers to what he termed ‘ fanatical local authorities ’ , and he wrote to Rosebery asking him to withdraw support for the measures . |
| 23 | A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame . |
| 24 | Then , when my mother was so ill , he did try and sell it to get money for treatment for her . |
| 25 | His classical and monarchist position led him to couple admiration for urbane , urban eighteenth-century verse with more general wishes for social order , helping to develop his interest in the ideas of Maurras . |
| 26 | On the sixth day of rehearsal , Burge decided that Dustin would never ‘ find ’ the role , and asked him to make way for another actor . |
| 27 | Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ . |
| 28 | If colleges were experienced in validation and had developed acceptable validation procedures , the Council made Validation Procedures Agreements with them which enabled them to take responsibility for the organisation of validation for their own pilot schemes . |
| 29 | These pupils were not necessarily involving their parents in a conspiracy to allow them to avoid school for its own sake ; they were more likely to agree with their parents in putting home values before school values as the following quotations from two headteachers illustrate : |
| 30 | Public prosecutor Pierluigi Dell'Osso had appealed against an earlier ruling absolving De Benedetti , and had wanted him to stand trial for extortion . |