Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 2 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 3 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 4 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 5 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 7 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 8 | But because it 's so authentic people often mistake him for a real policeman . |
| 9 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 10 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 11 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
| 12 | When you send them send them Parcel Class but insure them for the top amount , |
| 13 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 14 | Save him for the Old Bailey and whichever penal dustbin they locked dope peddlers in . |
| 15 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 16 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 17 | Watch it for its parched melancholia : watch it for the fantastic innards-eaten Erich von Stroheim ; watch it and spot which tiny , yet central , image Spielberg nicked from it for ET . |
| 18 | No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it . |
| 19 | We 've tried to love both dogs equally , and simply separate them for a cooling-off period after a fight , rather than telling them off in any way . |
| 20 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 21 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 22 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 23 | Alternatively , major capital projects would be undertaken by private sector contractors who would finance and build the assets in question , operate them for a specified period in return for an agreed fee and then transfer them to the commissioning authority . |
| 24 | Contact me for a free Walk Pack which includes details of your nearest walk , the walk T-shirt and of course a sponsor form . |
| 25 | Reverse it for the bottom lashes — look up in to the mirror about your forehead . |
| 26 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 27 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 28 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 29 | ‘ If you invite someone , you invite them for the whole day . ’ |
| 30 | No , they wrote and ask you for the exact date of day I started getting ability allowance . |