Example sentences of "[verb] with a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was also presented with a certificate for crime prevention by Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , at a ceremony held in Edinburgh Castle . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Reggie Ryan was presented with a cheque for £1,008.90 which is to help the Lough Swilly Lifeboat Association . |
| 3 | She was presented with a cheque for £600 by Mr Peter Johnson , of Northern Business Systems , which sponsored the contest . |
| 4 | After a meal for four at Les Quatre Saisons restaurant , he was presented with a bill for Fr 1,887 , around £180 . |
| 5 | This exercise is best done with a partner For safety and assistance if necessary . |
| 6 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 7 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |
| 8 | May is crippled with osteoporosis and has to walk with a frame for support . |
| 9 | Here , picture researcher Julie Query deals with a request for pictures of John F Kennedy . |
| 10 | ‘ The existence of the defence of ‘ reasonable excuse ’ in section 42(4) of the Act of 1987 , which was not present in any guise in the provisions considered in Reg. v. Harz ; Reg. v. Power [ 1967 ] 1 A.C. 760 , could not itself justify construing section 42 as retaining the privilege under the concept of ‘ reasonable excuse , ’ which was clearly necessary to cover such matters as physical inability to comply with a requirement for information or documents arising from illness or accidental destruction of papers , etc . |
| 11 | Article 2(6) lists grounds for refusal to comply with a request for service . |
| 12 | A housing authority is obliged to comply with a request for help in these circumstances if it is compatible with its own statutory duties and obligations and does not unduly prejudice the discharge of its own functions ( s27(2) ) . |
| 13 | It opened with a piece for clarinet and tape by Gregory Levin ( born 1943 ) , typical of its time ( 1975 ) in its title , Crossroads , and correspondingly anonymous in its taste for weaving of atonal melodic threads . |
| 14 | ‘ I am being kept waiting with a message for Miss Lavenza . ’ |
| 15 | I have n't travelled with a maid for years . |
| 16 | Finally , cattle could be stolen for adventure , often tinged with a desire for revenge . |
| 17 | In The Fire of Love he writes : Nowadays too many are consumed with a desire for knowledge rather than for love , so that they scarcely know what love is or what is its delight . |
| 18 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 19 | Adminius fled to Caligula and begged him to intervene , but that strange un-balanced Emperor toyed with a plan for invasion but suddenly changed his mind . |
| 20 | At first , the family lived in one room upstairs and began with a bedroom for Ella , then aged four , and Joel , who was five months old . |
| 21 | The saga began with a desire for Argentina to prove that it was as good as the major technological powers . |
| 22 | The rats had been cleared from the lab when the Leutnant returned with a message for Dr Karnstein . |
| 23 | And things were tight near the end , when John Cornwell made Swindon sweat with a second for Southend . |
| 24 | Moving on its drive to attract as many ISVs to UnixWare as possible , Univel has kicked off another phase of its developers ' programme that will get the software into vendors ' hands at reduced prices : Independent software vendors can get a Personal Edition bundled with a Software Developers Kit for $600 and a Application Server bundled with a SDK for $900 . |
| 25 | Each night when we 'd finished our various tasks he would look at our hands by the light of a candle and probe with a needle for splinters . |
| 26 | Well , what you need , Joe , is to follow my fitness regime — the one designed for people who , in their heart of hearts , with their cigarettes already lit , wish they had more than just two hands to eat with , but because they are also cursed with a love for sport have to get fit the best they can . |
| 27 | Flat owners face losing their homes after being landed with a bill for ground rent going back fifteen years . |
| 28 | The main structure of the ‘ teacher ’ was a box , 38in × 23in × 7in provided with a flap for use as a writing table . |
| 29 | Today by some bonus of chance they were being left there to enjoy it and had not been interrupted with a call for tea or to go for a swim with Dad who had just come home . |
| 30 | In particular , vision has been equated with a capacity for imagination' , ‘ inspiration ’ , ‘ insight ’ , ‘ foresight ’ and ‘ sagacity ’ ( Oxford English Dictionary ) . |