Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 3 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 4 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 5 | Suppose I tell them that you want to escort me tonight for personal reasons ? ’ |
| 6 | The countries of the Third World in particular need them desperately for medical purposes , as the synthesized drugs are so expensive . |
| 7 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 8 | This is because you will have developed , without necessarily ever having thought about it , some learning style preferences that equip you better for certain stages in the cycle than for others . |
| 9 | ‘ And I should know , having brought you up for twenty-odd years . |
| 10 | But your earnings , or savings , rule you out for Legal Aid , and you 're reluctant to splurge money on lawyers . |
| 11 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 12 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 14 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 15 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 16 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 17 | I like them particularly for Chunky machines which of course do not have a garter carriage . |
| 18 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 19 | In the ensuing pandemonium the young musicians played on , but Matron came and took Anna away , scolding her gently for bad behaviour which would not be tolerated once she was settled in . |
| 20 | An academic takes him away for extensive intelligence tests , but he becomes disruptive and eventually opts to return home . |
| 21 | Sir Robert Catesby greeted Agrippa warmly , taking him aside for secret consultations whilst ignoring Benjamin and me . |
| 22 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 23 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 24 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |
| 25 | In manic periods , which seemed the most common , she was grossly overactive and reckless in behaviour , rarely slept , talked incessantly , and showed typical grandiosity in her claims that Christ had singled her out for special revelations . |
| 26 | More importantly , it puts them there for indeterminate periods ( until they are ‘ cured ’ ) which can , and does , mean longer than would be warranted by retributive justice ( determined by the gravity of their offence ) . |
| 27 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 28 | The awesomely powerful heating and ventilation system makes another jet-like roar , but it works so well that you only need it on for short bursts . |
| 29 | Practise it slowly for maximum benefit and to safeguard your back . |
| 30 | In 1978 the act was amended to make the earliest mandatory retirement age 70 and to eliminate it entirely for federal employees . |