Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obviously advantageous to record those events and the aftermath as quickly as possible to preserve them for the benefit of those who came after us . |
| 2 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 3 | I do n't really understand what he 's doing , but it 's OK to watch him for a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've always said I 'm prepared to pay something for a pass and other people are , too . |
| 5 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 6 | And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . " |
| 7 | I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff . |
| 8 | Her mum says we 'd be welcome to rent it for a couple of weeks . |
| 9 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 10 | the word ‘ accent ’ is used elsewhere to refer to different varieties of pronunciation ( e.g. ‘ a foreign accent ’ ) ; it is confusing to use it for a quite different purpose — to a lesser extent we also have this problem with ‘ stress ’ , which can be used to refer to psychological tension . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was too honest to deceive him and too prudent to exchange him for a lover whose interest would probably not last very long . |
| 13 | We do n't know what he 's like yet — would n't it be better to ask him for an odd Sunday first before we let ourselves in for a course of sermons ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The test for Neil is whether he could have done anything better to prepare himself for the task ahead . |
| 15 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 16 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 17 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 18 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 19 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 20 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 21 | PERSONAL liability of £250,000 to £1 million is advisable to cover you for the legal liability of injuring someone or damaging their property , particularly as insurers report an increase in such claims . |
| 22 | We wo n't be able to afford one for a couple of years yet . |
| 23 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 24 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 25 | He predicts that , within two years or so , people will be able to buy it for the price of a cheap piano . |
| 26 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 27 | The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks . |
| 28 | The information was n't either was n't available to him or was not understood by him and he was n't able to interpret it for the board . |
| 29 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 30 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |