Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun prp] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already there is talk of using Macintoshes for packaging design , 35mm slide and OHP production and a host of other graphics oriented functions . |
| 2 | Secondly , we had the early misfortune of booking Emma for ski lessons with a French ski school whose woman teacher was an ogress . |
| 3 | The alleged swindle took the form of charging Wessex for computer services which had not been rendered and double charging for services which had been rendered by a multiplication of invoices and false entries . |
| 4 | When they reach their goal , Abraham goes calmly about the business of preparing Isaac for slaughter . |
| 5 | There was less talk of preparing Nato for war by 1954 . |
| 6 | In the in the sense I associated with working Wigan for example . |
| 7 | Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ . |
| 8 | Art could not speak , he had become so used to meeting Daphne for lunch once a week , it was part of his life , he felt shocked , strange , bereft . |
| 9 | After a while she closed the kitchen door without calling Frankie for breakfast . |
| 10 | But most people agree that what the territory needs is a forceful , clever politician , who can negotiate agreements without begging London for help . |
| 11 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 12 | The blazer brigade does n't say anything about that now , any more than the Metropolitan Police will risk making fools of themselves again by arresting Christie for possession of a supposedly stolen car . |