Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I suggest that we substitute for this what might be called a ‘ relative autonomy ’ rule .
2 And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave .
3 I do not know whether I speak for all my right hon. and hon. Friends .
4 So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility
5 He says that they sample for dozens of chemicals — the Severn supplies drinking water so they have to be accurate .
6 The number of matrices B which diagonalise A in this manner is indefinitely large : to prove the theorem we need only show that it holds for any two .
7 The week 's work was done and she waited for another hard week to start in this ugly , holiday dress .
8 The two organisations are not in fact connected and we apologise for any confusion that may have been caused .
9 A quick glance at Ikeda 's sepulchral concrete space indicates what the gallery does hope to sell while it waits for American collectors to warm up to the cutting edge of new Japanese art .
10 For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right .
11 It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace .
12 And that she said was repossessed and it went for seventy five thousand .
13 ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners .
14 Granted that ‘ Be aware ’ suffices for some choices of ends , it does not necessarily follow that it suffices for all .
15 The certificate shows that he served for 7 years 71 days as a private ; 2 years 310 days as a corporal ; and 10 years 349 days in the rank of sergeant .
16 in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung
17 Face that he fell for EX-LOVER Antonia says you are accountable for your own actions .
18 Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) .
19 That fight will be helped if you vote for composite fourteen and motion three O five .
20 I do n't know , I ca n't remember whether she applied for that , I know Harold his daughter went up to Southampton and he was horrified at the accommodation she was staying in , up there
21 That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet .
22 No I do n't , I think I can , you witness that I paid for this wo n't you ?
23 He submitted that the undercover exercise , lasting as it did for some three months , was contrary to public policy .
24 I believe that I speak for many others , both in my party and outside it , who want to see a successful conclusion at Maastricht and who want political and economic union in Europe to go forward .
25 Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse .
26 We were given to understand that you asked for this article . ’
27 For others , such as Miró and Calder , the boundary between painting and sculpture is continually displaced as they search for new ways of combining the two , with the emphasis on space , in the case of Giacometti , or real movement of forms .
28 If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well .
29 Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change .
30 Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was
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