Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he declared that he would be unable to recognize Roksanda , after having seen her for such a short time , and that only by the light of his master 's ring . |
| 2 | By 1952 almost all English education authorities had adopted an intelligence test in their selection process ; psychologists debated the effects of social agencies coaching and practice — on IQ scores ; but Hertfordshire gave up the eleven-plus exam altogether , after having had one for at least fifteen years . |
| 3 | He offered to tutor the girl , but after trying to teach her for a while , gave it up as he considered she was unable to focus on what she was being taught . |
| 4 | He it is who not only empowers us to do right , but works in us the desire to want to do right , without which we would never dream of turning to ask him for his strength . |
| 5 | And last night , instead of trying to comfort him for his loss , he told him it was God 's vengeance upon him . |
| 6 | There could hardly be a more opportune time for attempting to salvage something for those young people who are currently gaining little if anything from the educational system . |
| 7 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 8 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 9 | Indeed she did , for having sacrificed herself for this damnable dress material it was no more than commonsense to make certain that no part of it had been damaged or soiled , that she could go to Miss Dallam presently , when she found the strength to get up out of this bed and tidy her hair and her cuts and bruises , as if absolutely nothing had occurred . |
| 10 | I feel guilty about having engaged her for weeks in close and auto-erotic questioning . |
| 11 | We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic . |
| 12 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 13 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 14 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 15 | So , for me , the best thing about starting work was being able to go shopping every weekend and buy things without having to ask someone for money . |
| 16 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 17 | I mean what were you going to hoping to sell them for anyway ? |
| 18 | Your gon na have to choose something for Mrs Macdonald 's baby . |
| 19 | If your ferret continues to fail to reappear another possibility must be considered — that someone else passing by has recovered it for you ! |
| 20 | But the German jury responsible for selecting its nation 's entries for the Academy Awards caused a rumpus by declining to submit it for nomination . |
| 21 | Instead of joining in with my group in recognising this success and congratulating the managers , the party opposite showed its usual churlishness by trying to congratulate themselves for some reason or other . |