Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 2 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 3 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 4 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 5 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 6 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 7 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 8 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 9 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 10 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 11 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 12 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 13 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 14 | As it seems that the ancient and archaic NDB is to remain with us for the foreseeable future , this might be a good time to take a closer look at its failings as an aid to navigation ? |
| 15 | There is still much to be done but the more we ‘ get it right first time ’ the more confidence our customers will have to remain with us for the long term future . |
| 16 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
| 17 | IN this chapter I want to search with you for the spirit of place , to conjure up the spirit that will give life and breath to descriptions of places . |
| 18 | We explained that we had to do without them for the most part — and be tankful for the older ones and the women . |
| 19 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 20 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 21 | Well , if , if there is n't anybody else who wishes to compete with you for the Chair , er , then I think there ought to be a Vice Chair . |
| 22 | Waggoner eventually concluded that the only way to see a whole tournament is to go to it for the entire week . |
| 23 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 24 | It is difficult to disagree with him for the conjunction of computers and communications is perhaps the most important aspect of information technology . |
| 25 | I knew that she now expected me to live with her for the rest of her days . |
| 26 | I need you to love me and make me whole , to live with me for the rest of our lives and be the pride of my heart and the mother of my children … ’ |
| 27 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 28 | A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy . |
| 29 | He was coming to stay with me for the British Grand Prix in three weeks , ’ said Lord Hesketh , now Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords . |
| 30 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |