Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 2 | Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter . |
| 3 | Coronary risk factors are multiplicative , not additive , so if you already have one or two unavoidable risk factors , the last thing you should do is assume that the sword of Damocles is irrevocably poised above you and reach for another cigarette . |
| 4 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 5 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 6 | At the Easter vestry in 1818 Merceron was voted out , and shortly afterwards he was convicted of the charges against him and imprisoned for eighteen months . |
| 7 | Leave the haggling over the price to your agent and take his advice on the final choice of buyer , who should be well advanced in his own sale ; but do not be in any hurry to settle the matter without at least sleeping on it and allowing for second thoughts all round . |
| 8 | ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’ |
| 9 | Watching her sleep , however , is not the most stimulating experience I 've had of late , although I realise that certain New York film-makers would have shot ten solid reels of it and begged for more . |
| 10 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 11 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 12 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 13 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |