Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The princess sang along with old favourites such as The Streets Of London and My Liverpool Home — plus the hospice hymn Give Me Oil For My Lamp . |
| 2 | Inventing farfetched excuses , she left me trapped in her flat and made no attempt to help me look for work . |
| 3 | A source of particular vulnerability for the agencies is that in its reorganization of the water industry the 1973 Water Act gives them responsibility for the management of the great majority of sewage treatment works , which in many areas are themselves significant — often principal — sources of pollution . |
| 4 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 5 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 6 | Roffman and Purdy have quite rightly stressed that Vidor 's traditional populism gave him sympathy for the underdog , but prevented him from moving towards any collectivist political situation . |
| 7 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 8 | The 22-year-old 's eighth professional outing brought her £8,250 for her one-shot win ahead of Laura Davies and Gillian Stewart . |
| 9 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now has a second chance to get it Wright for England ! |
| 10 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 11 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 12 | The colonial experience gave him material for his propositions about colonial nationalism , the subject which he quickly made his own . |
| 13 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 14 | Eagle Star launched it strategy for the older market last April , with a range of special policies sold by a mature salesforce . |
| 15 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 16 | ( As the project has developed , the Coordinating Team has had more confidence in " delaying " a Major award to a school by a year to give it time for further consolidation . ) |
| 17 | Mind you , it 's not sunbathing or badminton I have in mind but planting — what more satisfying thing is there to do in the garden than to plant bulbs , or a tree or shrub to give you joy for years to come . |
| 18 | She gave him that chill , remote look which she now knew infuriated him , and felt a fierce satisfaction to see him struggle for self-control . |
| 19 | Start off dahlia tubers indoors or in the greenhouse to give you shoots for cuttings to increase your stock . |
| 20 | Their sparring for position of least-favoured son gave me pause for thought . |
| 21 | TEC directors have already persuaded the Home Office to hand them responsibility for smartening up the employment prospects of black and brown Britons . |
| 22 | ABOVE Another scene in the Seychelles this time offering us tranquillity for very different reasons ; the rocks and the overshadowing branches indicate to us that here we can enjoy good observation of our surrounds without ourselves being observed . |