Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 2 | I let him keep young ones for sentimental reasons since I do n't need them for practical purposes . |
| 3 | If , like me , you love the country , maybe one way you can help preserve it for future generations is to stay away from it . |
| 4 | He grew a real beard , which would incommode him for other parts ; he thought , behaved , responded Learwise , in as short-sighted a fashion as that monarch would have done , having handed on his characteristics to his youngest daughter . |
| 5 | The tribunal will generally compensate you for lost fringe benefits , although putting a figure upon them is often another exercise in guesstimation . |
| 6 | AA Hospital Plus will cover you for private health care of up to £10,000 , £20,000 , or even £40,000 , if the National Health Service can not treat you within six weeks . |
| 7 | Most importantly , your input will be quickly recognised and rewarded , and the variety and size of the project workload will ultimately prepare you for full management responsibility . |
| 8 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 9 | This would leave the bassist free to add little chordal colourings on the G and D. You could also use them for striking solo intro riffs , something they excel at , while adding a touch of stereo chorus provides an even sweeter sound . |
| 10 | The fact that , one has as a as a council , credit approvals , it does allow you to set them against capital receipts in in further financing new capital works , to the extent that you do n't use them for other purposes . |
| 11 | You can also use them for blocking gaps between skirting boards and floor — it 's much cheaper than wood beading . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she said , the words low and heavy with threat , ‘ if you ever try anything like that with me again I 'll report you for sexual harassment so fast you wo n't know what 's hit you . |
| 13 | He was delighted , said he would mark it for immediate release to the newspapers under the Branch Secretary 's name . |
| 14 | You can only swap it for nice things . |
| 15 | It was decided that until the camp arrived Lady Rathcreedan could use it for grazing cattle . |
| 16 | The Payroll operation is particularly sensitive , and although it would be desirable to have only one X-25 link for the organization , the demands of security , and reduction in cabling costs , suggest that an additional X-25 link be established in 1993/94 through one of the file-servers , so that any networked PC can use it for external communications . |
| 17 | FIserve expects $23.5m from the offering and will use it for working capital , possible repayment of debt and acquisitions of complementary businesses . |
| 18 | you know , you could use it for quick notes |
| 19 | It is so versatile : you can use it for everyday cooking and for special and festive occasions in starters , main courses , salads and puddings . |
| 20 | Others who lack our inborn ethics would use it for evil ends . |
| 21 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 22 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 23 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 24 | I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants . |
| 25 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 26 | Peasants with a minimal surplus of food could barter it for vital equipment . |
| 27 | A member of one local authority in England — I will not name it for obvious reasons — told me that the police in that area have said that following up poll tax debts and warrants is not a high priority . |
| 28 | They would have no direct control over such institutions except that they could pay them for particular services . |
| 29 | The artifacts remain in the National Collection , but Mr Hopkin informed us that if successful with our application then we will retain them for ten- year periods . |
| 30 | You 've been cheating me , you stinking ass hole , letting me pay you for second-rate designs while you market the best ideas yourself . ’ |