Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 2 | But , rather than pay cash , Novell will issue about 1.1 million new shares of Novell stock and trade them for existing USL stock . |
| 3 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 4 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 5 | Mr Gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for £1,500 , realising its quality but not its rarity or importance ; Sotheby 's Christopher de Hamel found it ‘ extraordinarily interesting ’ . |
| 6 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 7 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 8 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 9 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 10 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |
| 11 | She would fasten the ring about her neck and wear it for Johnny , as he had asked her to do . |
| 12 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 13 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 14 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 15 | This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette . |
| 16 | In doing so the student will not merely be preparing in the best possible way for his examination : he will also be developing his mind as a working instrument and preparing himself for legal practice . |
| 17 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 18 | Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important . |
| 19 | Members will also study distance learning materials before starting the course to consolidate the College study and to prepare them for subsequent modules . |
| 20 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 21 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 22 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 23 | On average , says the study , buying a share at its initial offering and holding it for three years yielded a total return ( dividends plus capital growth ) of just 8% . |
| 24 | ‘ One is always grateful for that kind of comic genius who takes your script and plays it for everything that 's in it , ’ as Shaffer told me . |
| 25 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 26 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 27 | The amount of compensation reflects the fact that he is out of work and compensates him for his losses . |
| 28 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 29 | presented him with a huge pepper mill and thanked him for his hard work . |
| 30 | Now you can take any icon and use it for other Window programs including your own ! |