Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 2 | Most enterprise-based unions remain fairly self-contained and although many do affiliate to the appropriate national , regional or industrial federations they accord them little authority for conducting collective bargaining or sanctioning agreements . |
| 3 | These viruses have received most attention because their high pathogenicity , narrow host range , and complete safety to vertebrates and plants , make them ideal candidates for biological pest control agents . |
| 4 | Bantamweight Karen Briggs , featherweight Sharon Rendle and light-middleweight Diane Bell all won on Saturday with performances that make them odds-on favourites for medals in Barcelona . |
| 5 | And we 've helped people to start their own tree nurseries and grow their own trees for firewood . |
| 6 | AEA is poised to capitalise on the hard work of the last three years and realise its carefully-laid plans for the future , according to John Maltby . |
| 7 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 8 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 9 | This is a full-time appointment , and in most universities a permanent one , though some ( notably Oxford , Cambridge and London ) elect their vice chancellor for a period of several years at a time . |
| 10 | Distrusting the accuracy of the commercially available products , those in ideological groups build their own machinery for picturing the world . |
| 11 | When John and Veronica Saunders decorate their living rooms for Christmas , they make sure the doors stay firmly locked until Christmas morning . |
| 12 | He rewrote his original report for Viktor Rakovsky , incorporating the results of investigating the affair . |
| 13 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
| 14 | Labels — either London print these or they send us blank labels for CAW organisers and church leaders print-out . |
| 15 | He is struggling to overcome a thigh injury and has seen his form slump as Liverpool suffer their worst start for 39 years . |
| 16 | Salford lose their bargain-buy prop for at least six weeks . |
| 17 | They even develop their own tactics for lulling the babies to sleep . |
| 18 | They , too , need to know without delay where they stand so that they can prepare to work in and with the new structures and make their own bids for funds . |
| 19 | The negative effect of such discrimination is illustrated by the practice in adult education establishments which treat pensioners as ‘ half persons ’ ; colleges charge them half price for attending courses , but then insist that a class must have twice as many registrations as required for younger students , before it can go ahead . |
| 20 | so they did n't , it only cost them thirty quid for carpet |
| 21 | The environment does not determine the nature of the world of production ; it provides a context within which people develop and redevelop their own rules for survival . |
| 22 | Having won their votes from the gullible , as well as the dedicated , the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy . |
| 23 | People fry their dried blood for breakfast , wear their shrivelled guts as necklaces and put parts of their hearts into human hearts . |
| 24 | Well , then they charge you thirty P for it . |
| 25 | You 've only got to go up here , they only charge you ten pence for a sheet , get a great big , actually I could type . |
| 26 | Other prints , huge and complex , show his immediate concern for tribal life , as can be seen not only in the The Value of Water but also in the six-part Men are Working in Town . |
| 27 | Let us all hope for better things in 1994 . |
| 28 | Our network of branch chairmen , branch secretaries and their committees deserve our heartfelt thanks for the hard work that they do . |
| 29 | O spread your hooded watch for the safety of our slumbers , |
| 30 | Give them hinged lids for storage and add soft pads covered with fabric for comfortable seating . |