Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false . |
| 32 | The proper name for cretinism is hypothyroidism , which means hypo is not enough as in hypothermia , thyroid means thyroid , -ism , it 's the three things they check for , can I pull that down ? |
| 33 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 34 | Three pounds I get for running it . |
| 35 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 36 | She is also well known locally for the soft toys she makes for various charities . |
| 37 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 38 | For three seasons he rode for the Scottish millionaire George Baird ( ‘ Mr Abington ’ ) , training and riding Busybody . |
| 39 | They have the same four basic options we described for general ownership policy : state ownership ; specific support for or discrimination against locals or foreigners ; or neutrality . |
| 40 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 41 | True , her book is devoted mostly to the early characteristics of her subjects , the brief biographies she provides for them ending in their mid-twenties . |
| 42 | And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy . |
| 43 | Prolific and reliable , the 170 maps he produced for the London Magazine alone ( 1747–83 ) would prove sufficient companion for the entire history of his time . |
| 44 | The remuneration for a lecture at the National Gallery that might take two weeks to prepare stands at £50 and in many cases you pay for your own slides . |
| 45 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 46 | But you 're joking you know how many calls we took for it ? |
| 47 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 48 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 49 | Arch supports I have for my feet |
| 50 | As with all dreams we reach for the ideal … ’ |
| 51 | Since the death of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936 , the company has been wholly owned by the Wellcome Trust , a registered charity which distributes all profits it receives for the support of medical and allied research in universities and hospitals throughout the world . |
| 52 | In many towns they had for generations lived peaceably with , and often trusted by , their Christian neighbours . |
| 53 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 54 | The circular goes on to say : ‘ Local education authorities and governors may apply any reasonable criteria they wish for deciding which pupils should have priority of admission subject to the requirements of the law including the Race Relations and Sex Discrimination Acts . |
| 55 | Even so , I have difficulty in getting the printer to reproduce the very fine hairlines characteristic of the sharp good quills I use for my writing ( Figure 9 ) , with the inside upside down and adjacent to the outside . |
| 56 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 57 | ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency . |
| 58 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 59 | But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great . |
| 60 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |