Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence . |
| 62 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 63 | 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 |
| 64 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 65 | He leaned back in his chair and surveyed her for a moment . |
| 66 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 67 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 68 | Think yourself into it and hold it for a while . |
| 69 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 70 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 71 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 72 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 73 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |
| 74 | ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’ |
| 75 | As Ross monopolised her company , and claimed her for every dance , Laura was dimly aware that not only were her friends amazed , and frankly envious , but that she and Ross were the focus of all eyes , and much gossip . |
| 76 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 77 | 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 . |
| 78 | I should n't be surprised if Hollywood sends a plane to bomb the Indians and punish them for the death of Matt . |
| 79 | Or , it would build 21 district hospitals and run them for a year . |
| 80 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 81 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
| 82 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 83 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 84 | He shall feel the ground give under him , if only once , he shall fall , and men shall see him fall , and know him for a man like other men . |
| 85 | When the Shah and Empress received Marenches , he told them that the ayatollah had sent kidnappers to seize Hassans family and bargain them for the Shah . |
| 86 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 87 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 88 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 89 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 90 | in the end , Graham decided to donate the tank , equipment and fish and maintain it for the hospital free of charge . |