Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I commented a little earlier to somebody , I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven-year-old . |
| 2 | Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them , and as I commented a little earlier to somebody I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven year old . |
| 3 | As I commented a little earlier to somebody , I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven-year-old . |
| 4 | At the end of April I had almost forgotten my prediction for a release when Bilal and his partner , for whom we had no other name than Frank 's ‘ Jerk ’ , excitedly started spring-cleaning both the apartment and us . |
| 5 | I have also disclosed my intention for the effect that the book will have . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm a free agent and have regained my appetite for the game . |
| 7 | Now that she 's vented her spite for the evening , she wo n't even notice you 're missing , but if anyone asks I 'll tell them you 're suffering from toothache . ’ |
| 8 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 9 | The development programme for the aircraft will provide the broad range of capabilities which was asked for by all four nations originally and er the fact that one or more nations may have deleted its requirement for a particular facility does n't remove the need for us to complete the development work er because we still have at least one or two customers for that facility . |
| 10 | Clearly they all function with the agreement of their management committees and funders , and within NACAB membership conditions , In fact NACAB has democratically voted its support for a broadening of roles , by reiterating in the new membership regulations the responsibility of the management committee for ensuring that bureau workers are trained in social policy work , and that they see it as a natural complement to bureau work when dealing with individual clients . |
| 11 | FORMER England captain Terry Butcher has won his fight for a football future at Sunderland . |
| 12 | Kim Bailey 's gelding , a promising runner-up to Remittance Man at Wincanton recently , booked his place for the big race with a satisfactory two mile gallop after racing at Newbury yesterday . |
| 13 | If you have owned your property for a number of years , it will probably be worth more than you paid for it . |
| 14 | The view from the Quai bridge will have whetted your appetite for a trip on the lake , and a visit to Zurich is not complete without at least one water-borne day out . |
| 15 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 16 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 17 | And I 'm sure she 's long ago forgiven her dad for the pain he unwittingly caused her . |
| 18 | On Aug. 12 it was reported that the air and naval high commands had withdrawn their support for the President , dissociating themselves from the incidents of Aug. 10 . |
| 19 | On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 20 | THE SCOTTISH Milk Marketing Board has bowed to pressure and withdrawn its bid for the Co-op 's Scottish milk business . |
| 21 | There they managed to capture two Germans who had stopped their lorry for a rest , and obtained a jerrycan full of water . |
| 22 | This is perhaps not unexpected , given their reverence for the past and their long tradition of scholarship and collecting stretching back over several millennia . |
| 23 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
| 24 | SUZANNE , 19 , had visited my surgery for a second time in five days . |
| 25 | I 've done my diary for the |
| 26 | ‘ I 've done my bit for the day . ’ |
| 27 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 28 | I said , ‘ You have n't seen my work for the past year , have you ? ’ |
| 29 | But now Tewkesbury Borough Council which owns the theatre has decided its time for a change in managment … and this means Stan Stennett has to go . |
| 30 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |