Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It followed radiotherapy to treat her for cancer . |
| 2 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 3 | He went upstairs to his shattered bedroom to fetch it for Harry . |
| 4 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 5 | The cub became so domesticated he had to be put through a special programme to prepare him for life in his natural habitat . |
| 6 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 7 | Mada Joyce expected Nana to trust her for goods from the store , but never expected to pay . |
| 8 | The question is whether the prohibition on alienating the land followed by the exhortation to keep it for descendants amounts to a trust . |
| 9 | Phil Taylor beat Phil Bolton to keep Northumberland 's hopes alive but Caldy 's Ray Hughes and Jan Higginbotham of Bramhall both won and Jamie Curtis of Didsbury got a half to clinch it for Cheshire . |
| 10 | You see he 's and then he had the cheek to charge me for insurance ! |
| 11 | He sent a copy to Hall , with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition . |
| 12 | Magistrate Daphne Wickham freed Bridges , 20 , at London 's Thames court after finding there was insufficient evidence to send him for trial . |
| 13 | Bowe will be stripped of the WBC version of his title if he fails to agree to honour his contract for a defence against Lewis by January 2 — having already turned down what Lewis termed as a ‘ smack in the face ’ offer to fight him for $3 million . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So ask your GP to refer you for counselling . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |
| 18 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 19 | This is not a reason to avoid them for drama more than any other activity in school can help children find a mature approach to such topics . |
| 20 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 21 | And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’ |
| 22 | Cells work to keep calcium at vanishingly low internal concentrations , in order to use it for signalling . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 24 | THE Community Centre became a continental café for the morning on Saturday when the Alresford Twinning Association invited the public to join them for coffee and croissants . |
| 25 | Chairman Lord Younger has announced that , in addition to a tour of the building , Her Majesty has accepted an invitation to join him for lunch . |
| 26 | Our holidays all include a special invitation to join us for coffee at our Saturday morning welcome party . |
| 27 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 28 | This is the first time in my working life I have to go to the family to ask them for money . |