Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 2 | It is essential therefore , that you identify and appreciate the historian 's viewpoint , follow the individual steps in his arguments and pinpoint the specific reasons he offers for his views . |
| 3 | Three years later Robert married Mary , the daughter of Stephen Longmoore , a farmer , but within a few months he left for America in order to improve his position . |
| 4 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
| 5 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |
| 6 | The diversity of provision is a reflection of the different functions it serves for children and their families ( e.g. full day care for working parents , part-time nursery education , short-term group play experience ) . |
| 7 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 8 | ‘ There are some suggestions I made for changes but this would not prevent me signing it . |
| 9 | My plump American friend , , who you have met , I think , has just shortened some curtains I got for Naples ( for a donation to the Romania Appeal ! ) . |
| 10 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 11 | With these dismissive remarks he left for Kensington Palace . |
| 12 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 13 | Sonny has a number of different slides he uses for different occasions . |
| 14 | But I have different slides I use for different things . |
| 15 | She might not have been able to put into words the high hopes she held for her daughter but her actions spoke volumes . |
| 16 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 17 | Erm there 's tremendous pressures I think for for a mother particularly erm at the early stage in the marriage when she has young children at home . |
| 18 | And I hope you have n't gone to any trouble cooking for me because I can barely keep owt down these days , not after t'hospital , me appetite quite sickened away on me wi' the things they serve up — greasy bits o' beef skirt and nasty little salads wi' half a two-week old egg and a few outside leaves o' lettuce and a bit o' wet beetroot , no , it was an effort getting it down , let alone keeping it down — I can tell you , there was many as could n't , eggs from t'infernal regions we got for us breakfast as often as not , right stink bombs , but could you get any o' them nurses to have a sniff or give us another i'stead ? |
| 19 | Most said they did not find the actual tasks they performed for the dementia sufferer difficult , but two-thirds found one or more of the symptoms of dementia difficult to cope with , and most described feelings of strain . |
| 20 | It was getting to the point that whenever he saw a policeman sauntering along the crowded streets he chose for his phone calls his stomach turned over . |
| 21 | Griffin & Sabine leaves you wishing for a missive as exotic through your own front door . |
| 22 | Until noon he stayed out of the cottage , walking across the Northumbrian moors with a knob-headed stick and humming Anglican hymns , whose verbal schemes he admired for their metrical embodiment of depression . |
| 23 | Even Denise had aged a little , got heavy and puffy in her thirties , from the big cooked dinners she made for hungry Keith . |
| 24 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 25 | After three hours we looked for land . |
| 26 | We killed 9 Manura [ sic ] superba 3 of which I have in brine for dissection , 2 for skeletons , the rest in skin , a pair of which with several other fine birds I intend for Lady Franklin . |
| 27 | The report says : ‘ Few pupils have the basic books they require for the GCSE without financial support from home . |
| 28 | But the only thing that was important about the film was its length and the ill omens it offered for the future . |
| 29 | Even then , of course , a problem would remain if Local Education Authorities continued to vary from one another in the proportion of all secondary-school places they reserved for grammar schools — from 10 to 45 per cent in this study . |
| 30 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |