Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's get out of here before MacLane shows and tries to pull me in for this . ’ |
| 3 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 4 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 5 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 6 | Amphoterics are high foaming and extremely efficient detergents but their expense tends to rule them out for all but specialist applications . |
| 7 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 8 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 9 | In the thirtieth minute , Gary Weaving scored what looked like a perfectly good goal , only for the linesman to rule it out for offside , to everyone 's dismay . |
| 10 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 11 | This time , alas , there is little to cheer and they need to pick themselves up for this Saturday 's basement battle against Chester . |
| 12 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 13 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 14 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 15 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 16 | His stomach rebelled at the mere thought of food , but he knew he must not miss this golden opportunity to put something by for another day . |
| 17 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 18 | It 's awful to let her in for all this . ’ |
| 19 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 20 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 21 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 22 | People protect their own territories and are reluctant to put themselves out for other departments striving hard to provide a good service . |
| 23 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 24 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 25 | You wo n't be able to keep it up for more than a week . ’ |
| 26 | Q ) I was only half watching Question of Sport last night ( trying to psyche myself up for Wild Palms — you need your brain on full alert to make head or tail of it ) , but was that Bremner scoring against Celtic in the EC Semi ? |
| 27 | We have to harden ourselves up for this . |
| 28 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 29 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 30 | If you 've neglected your legs during the winter and are planning to get them out for some spring sunshine then check out the new Stripwax from Jolen , £3.95 for 36 strips . |