Example sentences of "[vb base] for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to thank you all at this time on behalf of the Association and the sport we represent for all your efforts you make for us in an unpaid capacity and time given voluntary to all . |
| 2 | Test for it with a screwdriver . |
| 3 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 4 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 5 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
| 6 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 7 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 8 | You go up round then you come down yes you can through but people queue and wait for one on the top . |
| 9 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 10 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 11 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 12 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 13 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 14 | Participants of the ladder league are also invited to enter the special k.o. competitions run for them throughout the year . |
| 15 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 16 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 17 | We would alert Australia … look for him round the world . |
| 18 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 19 | Look for one with a detachable changing mat ( all ours had them ) , and lots of pockets to prevent odds and ends getting jumbled up . |
| 20 | ’ The criminals look for you amid the filth and decadence of this world , . |
| 21 | Having found the appropriate class number from the card , look for it in the subject or classified catalogue and flick through the cards of that particular number . |
| 22 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
| 23 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 24 | Saussure illustrates these principles with a diagram ( 1974 : l 12 ) , which may help to clarify his point : The two bands of wavy lines A and B stand for what in a pre-linguistic state would be two continua : respectively an ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ and ‘ the equally vague plane of sounds ’ . |
| 25 | To help your GP prescribe for you in the best possible way , from April 1991 , what is called an ‘ indicative prescribing scheme ’ will be introduced . |
| 26 | Courses are available at centres at home and abroad and last for anything from an hour to two weeks . |
| 27 | It is rare to find an elderly person 's home that could not be made much more comfortable , convenient and secure for her by a few carefully planned improvements and adaptations . |
| 28 | She unwrapped it and it was the prince 's ruby , set for her in a ring . |
| 29 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 30 | They should also have details of the objectives set for them plus a specification of what the company sees as an ideal candidate . |