Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) To require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) To require any other person ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 3 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 4 | If you are considering a new boat or retrofit rig you 'll want to know more , just write , phone or fax for our product literature , to arrange a meeting or to organise a tender . |
| 5 | Or send for our brochure . |
| 6 | In the forests of Dean , Windsor , Cannock , Sherwood , Essex , Inglewood and Galtres the warden took the lop and top , and sometimes the bark , of oaks given by the king , or felled for his use . |
| 7 | oh , what you going to try some of this or wait for your whisky and lemon ? |
| 8 | Great literature is only partly the reflection of a particular year or generation : it is also a timeless thing , which can never become old-fashioned or out of date , or depend for its importance upon historical considerations . |
| 9 | The employee therefore see his involvement in a union , or support for his union , to be the best means of securing his personal objectives ( eg. through extra pay or shorter working hours ) or the employee may consider that his own goals would be furthered better by loyalty to senior managers in the organisation and acceptance of the organisation 's goals . |
| 10 | Who would have thought that the Coca-Cola bottle in your fridge today could turn into a fibre tomorrow to make carpet backing or filling for your anorak ? ’ |
| 11 | Editing or writing for your school or college magazine is also valuable . |
| 12 | She had the feeling she must either give in to that showy and heady beatification or run for her life . |
| 13 | It is always a dodgy business , sacking a manager or calling for his sacking . |
| 14 | At least , if she was unhappy , or fretted for her family , she did n't say so . |
| 15 | It may not appoint a legal guardian for the child or consent to an adoption order or an order freeing the child for adoption or providing for his adoption abroad ( s33(6) ( b ) ) . |
| 16 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 17 | The UUUC coalition informed each of the 8 Official Unionist members from the dissolved parliament that he had either to align himself with it or fight for his seat . |
| 18 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 19 | To add to the uncertainty , the age at which a person is considered old enough to vote may be different from that at which they are allowed to marry or fight for their country . |
| 20 | It was also announced on April 18 that some 108 persons arrested or imprisoned for their part in the 1990 demonstrations would be released from custody . |
| 21 | The prosecution need only prove that the physical action took place , and after that the defendant is expected to put forward a good reason or excuse for his action to escape conviction . |
| 22 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 23 | Physicians for Human Rights , based in Boston , and the New York group Human Rights Watch brought the samples back last summer and arranged for their analysis at the British chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down , Wiltshire . |
| 24 | When his brother retired from business , the husband took over the company , changed its name to Eratex Ltd. and arranged for his wife to become secretary and co-director of the company . |
| 25 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 26 | Helen let out a wail and plunged for her doll . |
| 27 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 28 | Arran convened his kin and friends , and all the other nobles who would support him , and asked for their backing against the cardinal . |
| 29 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 30 | ‘ I was desperate when I rang Anne and asked for her help . |