Example sentences of "[verb] [det] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 2 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 3 | The WO then further subdivides this for the eight counties of Wales . |
| 4 | We 'll have to use all our rehearsal time for Luxembourg too — we ca n't possibly afford to have the full cast up here for longer than three weeks and we 'll need that for the new production . ’ |
| 5 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 6 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 7 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 8 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 9 | It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there . |
| 10 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 11 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 12 | They felt it offered no child care provisions , did not promise much for the unemployed and will mean a rise in fuel bills from next year . |
| 13 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 14 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 15 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 16 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 17 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 18 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 19 | So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful . |
| 20 | I added that for the old tape , you know ? |
| 21 | But if you like , governments could do this for the non-teaching staff and not do that for the teaching staff . |
| 22 | We should do this for the mixed open as well , keep a a note of the entries from one year to the other and you can get in touch with people and say , Are you playing or not |
| 23 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
| 24 | Presumably this will make it easier for voters in the Tory heartlands to shop abroad and avoid duty , though it may not do much for the Conservative vote in Kent . |
| 25 | It says much for the two ladies , and the parents of Thrush Green , that the little house remained safe from children 's assaults , despite temptation . |
| 26 | This represents a great achievement in the middle of a recession and says much for the hard work of everyone involved . |
| 27 | In the past , most of the pottery workers have been individuals working virtually unaided , and it says much for the hard work and devotion of people like John Gillam , that so much has been achieved . |
| 28 | The contrast with the renewed vigour and conservationist sense of Australasian railways in the same period is striking , and says much for the respective cultural health of the Dominions . |
| 29 | The physical demands were enormous and it says much for the exceptional fitness of both crews that neither wilted . |
| 30 | It says much for the sang-froid of the practised musician that , despite the intrusion of a bomb hoax , both Dame Joan and the orchestra resumed the published programme as if no interruption had occurred . |