Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 2 | In most cases the landlord is also the commission agent who purchases produce wholesale and either auctions it in the local market or arranges for it to be boxed and exported to Amman , an operation which requires friendly relations with the authorities in Amman . |
| 3 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 4 | The level of attention which a special needs child might merit and deserve may not be possible — or the programme which the rest of the class follow may have to be skewed or truncated or adapted for them to be integrated . |
| 5 | ‘ He has played no part in either building the party or campaigning for it for four years now . ’ |
| 6 | Marjorie left Lizzie 's body at the vet 's and arranged for her to be cremated . |
| 7 | According to legend , Dame Janet decided that these ducks would be much happier in St James 's Park and arranged for them to be escorted thence . |
| 8 | Three years later , he emigrated with his parents to Israel , yet became a frequent commuter to the major musical centres of Europe , where he caught the eye of such musical heavyweights as Edwin Fischer , Wilhelm Furtwangler and ( most especially ) Arthur Rubinstein , who took an immense interest in the young pianist and arranged for him to be represented by his agent , the legendary Sol Hurok . |
| 9 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 10 | His mother , unable to find the strength to battle against him , wrote to the school and asked for him to be excused . |
| 11 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |
| 12 | On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused . |
| 13 | The letter did not say that they would continue to be charged for the service , unless they wrote and asked for it to be stopped . |
| 14 | On 28 August 1651 , while Alured was evidently on his deathbed , James Chaloner [ q.v. ] , the Yorkshire MP , reported to the House that Alured was owed £8,769 and asked for it to be paid . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I took it in yesterday and asked for it to be repaired as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Each writer is introduced by Ms Washington and placed for us against her proper contemporary backdrop , so that we can see and understand some of the pressures and concerns that shaped her writing , her style and her narrative voice . |
| 17 | The CFD , however , declared that early elections would inevitably be rigged , and pressed for them to be held in April 1993 . |
| 18 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 19 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 20 | If you are a supplier of goods or services where turnover exceeds the current registration threshold you have to charge VAT and account for it to Customs and Excise . |
| 21 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 22 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 23 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 24 | The 1910 dispute , which is particularly well documented in the press as well as in manuscript sources , enables us to see that on this occasion at least , the women did not stand by and wait for it to be resolved over their heads . |
| 25 | Since Alford was described on the ballot paper merely as ‘ The Labour Candidate ’ , it would not be surprising if quite a few voters were confused , and voted for him by mistake . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
| 28 | If I make a black man sweep up my trash , empty my dustbins , wash the vomit from my floor and kill for me in my imperialist wars … well , what do you think ? |
| 29 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 30 | At this point the Bosnian refugee leaped on to the stage on a small wooden horse , designed and built for him by his mother . |