Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just for a child to know that someone will be interested in her work or to have the opportunity to do something for someone else and know it will be appreciated can significantly change the child 's attitude to the task . |
| 2 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 3 | Grateful to be spared the unsettling power of that dark gaze , Ronni took the opportunity to study him for a moment . |
| 4 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ How much does the Prince pay you for being a colonel ? ’ |
| 6 | The trial did nothing for Musgrave 's popularity . |
| 7 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 8 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 9 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 10 | If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability . |
| 11 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 12 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 13 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 14 | Ideally , you should be able to go to your VDU terminal , pass through the necessary security controls , input information , have the computer check it for you , enquire on particular elements or records of information , produce ad hoc or regular print outs and produce graphical output with simple commands . |
| 15 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 16 | With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v. |
| 17 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 18 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 19 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 20 | The sister watched her for a while , then sent the nurse on an errand . |
| 21 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 22 | She let the stranger touch her for a minute , and then the woman bent and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 23 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 24 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |
| 25 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 26 | Neil 's origins made his presence in the East End even stranger — and he had the impertinence to quiz her for her presence , when his own was just as odd . |
| 27 | He had the impertinence to berate me for knee-jerk reactions on behalf of the Government when he opposes absolutely everything that the Government do , however sensible it obviously is . |
| 28 | The auction has something for everyone . |
| 29 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |