Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 2 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 3 | still got Bill as previously arranged but we had to find somebody else for Jack . |
| 4 | Should you wish to pull it out for cleaning , it slides on thoughtfully designed skid feet . |
| 5 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 6 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 7 | And it was just as well that she did so because Harry appeared at that moment , to lead her out for sherry and soda . |
| 8 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 9 | Miss Jeanette told how Nichol had scratches on his face , neck and lip when he arrived to pick her up for work . |
| 10 | Tony plans to hire it out for weddings and film work . |
| 11 | The crowds loved his clowning , and he confirmed his ability to sweat it out for hour after hour . |
| 12 | Caterham , however , will try to sell it on for £17,500 . |
| 13 | This is fine , provided you are able to rouse yourself again for dinner ! |
| 14 | ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ . |
| 15 | If Maureen was at home , she would drive into Oxford to fetch him home for lunch . |
| 16 | But we are given an insight into the limitations of their cognitive capabilities when we observe a spider responding to a vibrating tuning fork by attempting to wrap it up for food . |
| 17 | Greyson Gemmell comes in to win it back for Forest . |
| 18 | That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back . |
| 19 | I 've almost paid off the debt and soon I may have enough to put something aside for savings . |
| 20 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 21 | If we examine God not as protagonist and moral bully but as author of this story , we have to mark him down for plot , motivation , suspense and characterisation . |
| 22 | ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens . |
| 23 | What she decided to do was produce Monday which we agreed to put it in for Monday and she would ask them midweek delivery . |
| 24 | Garnets continued to be rubbed smooth and set en cabochon , but advantage was taken of the way the stone could be split into sheets to use it extensively for infilling gold cloisonné work , a technique invented by Sumerian goldsmiths and brilliantly employed , using a variety of infills , in New Kingdom Egypt . |
| 25 | I do n't want a complete shade change but would like to cheer it up for summer . |
| 26 | I 'm happy to put myself out for people here . ’ |
| 27 | I have n't bothered to put myself down for tutorial or shall |
| 28 | The surveys were conducted in the context of a perceived need to encourage able people to put themselves forward for election . |
| 29 | Under the restrictions of the Office of Fair Trading , SLAD can not compel its members to conform to the terms and conditions the Society recommends and members are free to amend them individually for clients . |
| 30 | Ian Gilzean who 's dad used to knock them in for Spurs showed that goals run in the family … |