Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My application for a warrant to monitor Mr. Cox 's telephone communications was made in April 1983 . |
| 2 | But today people living in Brockweir have pledged their support for a scheme to reopen the school . |
| 3 | They resumed their search for a way to anchor the hook . |
| 4 | She sought in her mind for a way to explain , and finally she said hesitantly : |
| 5 | Indeed , she could not even remember the day in question or her request for a baby to play with . |
| 6 | Yet it never entered her head for a moment to think that Prince Charles was remotely interested in romance . |
| 7 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 8 | Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before |
| 9 | ‘ Shameless , ’ he teased thickly , lifting his mouth for a moment to gaze darkly down at her rapt face . |
| 10 | Hence his proposal for a competition to describe the significance of the Higgs boson — a target of the next generation of accelerators such as the proposed Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva and Superconducting Super Collider under construction in Texas . |
| 11 | Another distant roll of thunder added a bass note to the orchestrated shrillness of the tropical night , and Devraux lifted his head for a second to listen . |
| 12 | Willie raised his head for a moment to listen . |
| 13 | He lifted his head for a moment to look at her . |
| 14 | His request for an adjournment to consider this evidence and to produce scientific evidence that supported the nuns ' claim that the flock was not a threat to human health , was granted by the judges until Tuesday . |
| 15 | He begged the Secretary to remind the Duke of Buckingham , who was Chief Justice of the Forests south of Trent , ‘ of his suit for a warrant to dispose of the bucks and deer in that forest to the gentlemen and inhabitants ’ . |
| 16 | The Annamese glanced over his shoulder for a moment to see if they were overheard . |
| 17 | Remorse , dissatisfaction and hope filled his mind as the heat of a glorious midsummer approached , and his yearning for a means to channel his abundant intellectual and emotional energy was greater now than it had ever been . |
| 18 | A small boy asked his mother for a cucumber to take to Sunday School . |
| 19 | True , Araminta had no idea of what a poached egg was , but what delight for a man to cook all his life for such an angel . |
| 20 | It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL . |
| 21 | Ask your MP for a permit to tour the House of Commons . |