Example sentences of "[pers pn] for a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In or about February 1983 , I received a message via my branch director that the deputy Director-General of MI5 was prepared to consider favourably an application from me for a telephone intercept on a member of the Communist Party within C.N.D. John Cox , a Vice-President of C.N.D. , was selected since he was well known as a member of the Communist Party and had been involved in C.N.D. practically since its inception . |
| 2 | LONDON listings magazine City Limits is circulating pound coins with a ‘ Swamp Me For A City Limits ’ stickers on them . |
| 3 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 4 | Which was good news for START ( Skin Treatment and Research Trust ) as we also asked you for a donation to help START in their research into replacement skin for series skin problems . |
| 5 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 6 | We will stop there on the way and I will leave you for a while to pay your respects . ’ |
| 7 | We asked you for a letter written by a father to his son admitting that he has some embarrassing or socially undesirable condition . |
| 8 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 9 | Johnson wrote to him in December 1987 , pleading with him for a meeting to settle the matter quietly to avoid lurid publicity in the mass media , and prevent damage to the church 's work with homeless people . |
| 10 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 11 | ‘ This story of Terry 's about going after your father to ask him for a loan to buy a small-holding — what do you make of that ? ’ |
| 12 | Do they for a moment consider that most visitors to the like District want to feel surrounded by natives of the fells and not middle-class accents and protocol ? |
| 13 | He left her for a time to find prey and brought back a hare from the moorland tops , tearing it up and gently feeding her with parts of it . |
| 14 | I should love to read a reference by her for a maid leaving her employment … . |
| 15 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 16 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |
| 17 | wan na borrow it for a night do n't you ? |
| 18 | The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught . |
| 19 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 20 | He obviously still took us for a couple holidaying together , and his embarrassment at intruding took the form of ignoring my presence . |
| 21 | Not really well we the Blackstone engineer fitting up engines , he stayed with us for a while to show us the ropes like you know . |