Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 2 | It followed radiotherapy to treat her for cancer . |
| 3 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ You didna ask me for evidence , John , you sought my best judgement , and you have it . |
| 5 | The label on the tin recommends it for church furniture and floors ’ . |
| 6 | Mummy bought it for Daddy really ! |
| 7 | The cub became so domesticated he had to be put through a special programme to prepare him for life in his natural habitat . |
| 8 | The council passed it for allocation to youth activities . |
| 9 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 10 | The guard invited us for tea . |
| 11 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 12 | As concludes Marsillius Finicus , ‘ Live merrily , O my friends , free from cares , perplexity , anguish , grief of mind , live merrily , ( Heaven created you for mirth ) . |
| 13 | I remember when I lost a fountain-pen Mummy and Daddy gave me for Christmas : I prayed and prayed , and I never found it . ’ |
| 14 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 15 | You see he 's and then he had the cheek to charge me for insurance ! |
| 16 | But if one failure damns us for life , there would never be a happy second marriage , a confident second-test driver or a successful birthday cake . |
| 17 | The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances . |
| 18 | Magistrate Daphne Wickham freed Bridges , 20 , at London 's Thames court after finding there was insufficient evidence to send him for trial . |
| 19 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 20 | Classical pharmacology prepared us for receptor diversity in that each of the stimuli listed in Fig. 1 acts through a separate receptor . |
| 21 | She was abandoned by her mother when she was a year old , and her father gave her for adoption . ’ |
| 22 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 23 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 24 | So ask your GP to refer you for counselling . |
| 25 | Travel insurance covers you for sickness abroad but limit the pay-out on possessions such as cam recorders , cameras and jewellery to £300 in total . |
| 26 | I sat eating my sandwiches in a grumpy sulk at the top of a mountain recently , while the pack of men surrounding a paraglider prepared him for take-off . |
| 27 | The Army prepares you for life , it makes you grow up and learn discipline . |
| 28 | We 've managed to hire the jackets the Salopettes the ski glasses the socks I 've sorted out , I 've told nan to buy you for Christmas . |
| 29 | Plasmids , transposons and whip-like flagella equip it for gene transfer |
| 30 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |