Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , some historians have argued that Methodism and other non-conformist sects were deliberately encouraged by employers in the nineteenth century in order to placate the workers and persuade them to look for salvation in the next world rather than in this . |
| 2 | Of those who take the tests , few score high enough marks to enable them to apply for assistance from their own government or overseas institutions . |
| 3 | ‘ I want you to go for dinner with me . ’ |
| 4 | Two copies of each of these Agreements are now being sent by mail to you , and I would ask you to arrange for signature of these documents by Three Vee Ltd , before returning them to us for signature . |
| 5 | You live in Glasgow and you have just received a letter from a company requesting you to attend for interview at the Station Hotel , Inverness on Tuesday morning at 9.30 am . |
| 6 | These enable you to call for help from anywhere in your house or flat . |
| 7 | The Director of the Serious Fraud Office formed the opinion that the matter was appropriate for investigation by procedures under the Criminal Justice Act 1987and on 24 June served a notice on the applicant requiring him to attend for interview at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information . |
| 8 | They also accused Cafiero of seeking to keep himself in office by introducing a clause allowing him to stand for re-election in the 1991 gubernatorial elections . |
| 9 | The submission of the father had been to the effect that the court should leave open the opportunity for him to apply for custody of the children in the divorce proceedings then pending . |
| 10 | It was a further example of Peking 's present heavy-handed approach towards Hong Kong , and stemmed from the colonial government 's decision not to return swimmer Yang Yang to China last week , but to allow him to leave for asylum in the United States . |
| 11 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 12 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 13 | The latest draft of the European Commission 's plan for telecommunications seeks deregulation of cross-border services within the Community from January 1996 and of all services , domestic and international , by the start of 1998 , Reuter reports from Brussels , and phone companies expect it to press for deregulation of phone service despite the industry 's reservations — ‘ It 's far too ambitious — we 're not opposed to deregulation but this is too fast , ’ Charlotte Pins , a director of corporate communications at Belgium 's Belgacom said ; France Telecom said it backed ‘ setting sights on 1998 or 2000 ’ as a deadline for freeing the phone service , but Community-wide rules on access to national networks , costs , tariffs and public service duties would have to be agreed shortly . |
| 14 | Late in 1970 Hilary Spurling wrote to me to ask for help in her book on Ivy . |
| 15 | It therefore makes good sense for us to control for date of birth when looking at the effects of terminal education age . |