Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vivien had some friends still up at Oxford and had arranged to meet them for lunch at the Randolph Hotel . |
| 2 | This power is extremely useful when a supervision order is made in respect of a very young child who can not be expected to present himself for examination . |
| 3 | " I 've come to ask you for money , my lord . |
| 4 | Indeed , 12 promising assistant managers are being selected annually for a development programme designed to prepare them for promotion to general managers . |
| 5 | The actual title of the course matters a lot less than the content , but a word of caution is necessary here to help you differentiate between programmes designed to prepare you for re-entry to the profession , and those which may be open to nurses currently practising , namely ‘ refresher courses ’ . |
| 6 | But I ca n't help feeling that this is strictly a US product and that no attempt has been made to localize it for UK or European markets . |
| 7 | Cell suspensions were centrifuged at 200 g for 10 minutes and the pellet of cells added to the organ bath the bathing fluid of which was used to resuspend them for transfer . |
| 8 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 9 | There are a few well-rehearsed cases in which all the information provided by a text is not used to interpret it For example , people often fail to see what is wrong with asking of an air crash on a national frontier ‘ where were the survivors buried ? ’ or they fail to see why saying that a book ‘ fills a much-needed gap ’ is an insult to its author . |
| 10 | Known as London Fields , Angela and Matthew Flowers had intended to use it for storage , but the appeal of the space suggested a more imaginative solution and so a proportion will be employed for changing exhibitions or for more permanent installations by gallery artists . |
| 11 | Those with special techniques or a particular knowledge of equipment , tools , materials , etc. , are also invited to inform us for inclusion on our list of contributors/demonstrators . |
| 12 | Invited to join them for coffee , he sat down , enquired after the progress of Joanna 's bad leg , then relapsed into a rather uneasy silence . |
| 13 | I 've refused to do them for Notts County Council on occasions . |
| 14 | I certainly have not met another Brother or Sister Brush that has been compelled to study it for weeks on end … |
| 15 | Wanted to meet you for years . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's more , he , like you , was asked to join us for tea . |
| 17 | Like PEPS everywhere , this was slow to catch on , especially as dealers were forced to sell it for days at a time without getting paid commission for it , so most did n't bother . |
| 18 | And although they were n't allowed to sell them for money , people could give them objects , could give them things like coffee and things like that |
| 19 | ‘ I was never allowed to do anything for fear it would spoil my hands . |
| 20 | Tulipifera liriodendron ( i.e. Liriodendron tulipifera ) known in England as the tulip tree and as a ‘ poplar ’ by settlers in America , first flowered in this country in the Earl of Peterborough 's garden at Parsons Green where it had been planted , according to Miller , in a wilderness with other trees allowed to overhang it for protection . |
| 21 | When Daddy [ Roald Dahl ] was dying , for example , Geraldine and a friend had arranged to take me for lunch . |
| 22 | The document authorizes an unusually large payment , and it has been plausibly conjectured that it was intended to reimburse him for expenses connected with the ‘ impressing ’ of choirboys for the chapel , which had been ordered in 1440 . |
| 23 | I 'd even begun to mistake it for part of my own body , an incurable growth that I 've got to learn to live with . |
| 24 | He stopped to inspect the latest Piaget watches and was tempted to buy one for Susan . |
| 25 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 26 | We have managed to confuse ourselves for years with the jargon of lithostratigraphy , biostratigraphy , chronostratigraphy and the rest . |
| 27 | Enriqueta has the authority of many years as a top designer so she is perfectly qualified to equip you for success in this competitive field . |