Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the air catches the membranes , the fish is lifted above the waves and it glides for hundreds of metres leaving its pursuers baffled . |
| 2 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 3 | He was being waltzed around by his captives and he bellowed for help but his colleagues had their own problems . |
| 4 | The incident delayed the Wardair Airbus on its flight to Toronto by three hours 11 minutes and she asked for compensation of more than £1,500 . |
| 5 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 6 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 7 | This motion condemns rise in unemployment caused by the incompetent handling of the Tory government 's economic policies and I ask for support of the T U C campaigns for the unemployed , but I would beg really that when we do campaign , the T U C gives us more than two days to notify us of rallies and meetings . |
| 8 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 9 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 10 | Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for someone to help me with my ironing . |
| 11 | The authors propose two ways forward : they encourage a change in attitudes and they call for some specific legislative measures . |
| 12 | Oh it was yes , I mean y when you take now erm er a boatman , I mean , and he , he like today well they ring up , I mean today I know the Ipswich Port Authority they lay the phone on the houses and they pay for it for 'em |
| 13 | What the ovules do is they stay in the grasses and they wait for the pollens to arrive . |
| 14 | Indeed , this management does affect the community because of internal borrowing between the superannuation and general fund since the general fund provides employers ' contributions and it charges for administration costs . |
| 15 | This simple canister squirts a harmless gas into the bottle , so it remains drinkable for up to four weeks and it lasts for over 100 applications . |
| 16 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 17 | As an entertainer I run in bright colours and I run for the public . |
| 18 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 19 | The Magistrate 's eye moved from one doctor to the other over the passive rows of tattered skeletons and he forgot for a moment that he was as thin and ragged as they were . |
| 20 | Erm you know I mean i i wi the Queen I think has given a wonderful example and her family life and I feel very sorry for the way her her children have you know the stresses of modern life ha have caused all these things and I feel for Charles an and Diana deeply . |
| 21 | Suddenly the cold around her began to burn , as an unknown and unsuspected rage lapped its edges and she felt for Tommaso sudden furious rancour.Contempt joined that rage too in turn , as she thought of his condition , the future of a conscript , the birth of a Post Office clerk 's son , who was in any case a stranger in the south , with God knows what dangerous notions in his head . |
| 22 | The Cleveland Way and the Lyke Wake Walk are , of course , the best known long distance routes and they coincide for about 12 miles . |
| 23 | He closed the curtains and I waited for him to come out to his car . |
| 24 | Rogers waggled his wings and they turned for home . |
| 25 | Because we , we had this when , when we carried out a political fund ballot erm and we asked for time off for stewards to go and talk to members and we asked for time off for a seminar , for a one day seminar . |
| 26 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 27 | The wood cracked against Belle 's hands and she sat for the rest of the lesson holding her knees . |
| 28 | And I learned to drive — mum and dad paid for my driving lessons and I paid for the driving test . |
| 29 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 30 | The possible states preceding the solution-state are taken as destinations and we look for states that might have preceded each of them … and so on back , until we are within range of where we start . |