Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mortimer had assigned everyone positions for the operation — Ace , Benny and Petion to remain with him — he checked his watch . |
| 2 | I 've got that targeted I think for an Easter job . |
| 3 | Erm and he is definitely booked you know for the high court and all of that , he 's |
| 4 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |
| 5 | Indicating the calf , he said , ‘ We 're hoping to keep this one for breeding , so we 've let it suckle for the normal period . |
| 6 | ‘ Far as I can find out they 've let it ride for the moment . |
| 7 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 8 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |
| 9 | My Lord this is course made I apologise for the of authority to support it . |
| 10 | Despite the adoption of a global data-structure , an essentially hierarchical flow of information is imposed which allows for a weak interaction between the knowledge sources . |
| 11 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 12 | The Prince 's vanity had made him dress for a winter 's campaign on what threatened to be the summer 's hottest day yet . |
| 13 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 14 | An old prairie wolf kept on howling — he 'd had nothing to eat for a week |
| 15 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't believe I would have sold you short for no reason at all , do you ? ’ |
| 17 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 18 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 19 | Mrs Bracken 's varicose veins were playing her up and the doctor had told her to rest for a week . |
| 20 | On Sept. 14 , 1989 , an agreement was eventually initialled which provided for a customs union with the EC whereby industrial goods would flow freely between Andorra and the EC but the EC 's external tariffs would be applied by Andorra to third countries . |
| 21 | It 's also ironic that the whole discussion could have taken place on radio , which would have enabled one to look for a dictionary or just take a walk round the room . |
| 22 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 23 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 24 | But whereas the mum-to-be would normally have found themselves admitted for a spell in hospital for monitoring , the centre can do it in a day . |
| 25 | It is suggested that pupils choose a person whose Christian commitment has led him/her to work for the good of others , thus making a link with the Christian vocation to alleviate suffering and/or the work of Christians in relation to respect for human life ( both indicated in L.0.2 ) . |
| 26 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 27 | ‘ And I 've asked you to cover for the last half-hour — that was selfish of me . ’ |
| 28 | Before the trial , the Sunday Times had just asked him to pose for the fashion pages of their magazine , wearing tough-guy togs . |
| 29 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 30 | Sampling saves time , labour and , therefore , money and by reducing the numbers of cases involved it allows for a concentration of effort on high quality information about the smaller number of cases involved . |