Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours . |
| 2 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 3 | An animal might for instance prepare itself for a fight by learning a particular association between some noise and the appearance of its enemy in the near future . |
| 4 | And they 're ideal in kids room we 're gon na , we got , if we can get up after Christmas get them for Lee |
| 5 | Its cries of distress saddened her for years . |
| 6 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 7 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 8 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 9 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 10 | Round , high-cheeked , boyish but with a scholar 's high brow , it was the face of a man of twenty-seven years of age nerving himself for an extreme deed , a supreme effort of will . |
| 11 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 12 | Schrödinger imagined an experiment in which a cat was placed in a sealed box with a sufficient supply of air to last it for the duration of the experiment . |
| 13 | He paid one of them £300 ‘ who , because I employed another to fit up my last room , out of pique arrested me for the balance . ’ |
| 14 | I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’ |
| 15 | An appeal is well under way to buy one for each of the county 's 30 ambulances . |
| 16 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 17 | ‘ What had you in mind to pursue him for ? ’ |
| 18 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 19 | All the Secretaries of State had educational training and experience in government to fit them for their posts . |
| 20 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |
| 21 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 22 | Certain names wish to withdraw these funds from Lloyd 's , as not being within the terms governing their premium trust funds , in order to use them for their personal benefit . |
| 23 | Cells work to keep calcium at vanishingly low internal concentrations , in order to use it for signalling . |
| 24 | The notion is analogous to our understanding that we need to save up money in order to exchange it for something we wish to buy . |
| 25 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 26 | The second kind of implicatures come about by overtly and blatantly not following some maxim , in order to exploit it for communicative purposes . |
| 27 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 28 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 29 | Furthermore , in order to organise yourself for leisure , you need to be reasonably sure , and to accept the fact that you will be unemployed long enough to make organising something worthwhile . |
| 30 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |