Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 2 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 3 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 4 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 5 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 6 | Sheep would not safely graze nor would spring lambs nor calves ; the average farmer could hardly be expected to stock them for old times ' sake . |
| 7 | When you open the file , a file handle ( an integer number ) is returned by the interpreter and you will need to store it for future use . |
| 8 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 9 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 10 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 11 | He was going to lose her for good and was powerless to stop the inexorable wheel of Fortune from taking her from him . |
| 12 | But what you are saying is you 're not going to give it for free ? |
| 13 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 14 | Welcome back : Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate and urgent action is needed to protect it for future generations . |
| 15 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 16 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 17 | For those nurses relocating from the acute sector to community services , training will be needed to prepare them for new ways of working . |
| 18 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |
| 19 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |
| 20 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 21 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 22 | For once Miss Coldharbour had looked uncomfortable and said she 'd have to ask Canon Wheeler , from which Julia had inferred that they had hoped to get her for free . |
| 23 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 24 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 25 | There was a rush by speculators to buy the true classics , subject them to extremely expensive rebuilds , and then to attempt to sell them for sky-high prices . |
| 26 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 27 | The compensatory award is intended to reimburse you for financial loss resulting from the unfair dismissal . |
| 28 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 29 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 30 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |