Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] for [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drum taps seek to restore the drum whose loss in modern drama is stated at the end of ‘ The Beating of a Drum ’ , while the striking suggestion that the choral passages ‘ to have a noise like a street drill ’ corresponds to Eliot 's praise of Le Sacre du Printemps for its uniting the noises of primitive and metropolitan life . |
| 2 | He has persuaded the new Armed Forces minister , Jeremy Hanley , to see a delegation next week to hear Chester 's case for it to have the new centralised pay and personnel centre . |
| 3 | First my father 's plans for my marrying a French princess , precluded my offering you anything more than a clandestine attachment — and now , with the future so uncertain , I fear that clandestine attachment and French princess are each as remote as the other . |
| 4 | He took the instrument and listened to Sandy 's heart for what seemed a long time . |
| 5 | Some months earlier I had written to Sir Sidney Barton who , fortunately for me , was still British Minister in Addis Ababa , asking him to obtain the Emperor 's permission for me to follow the Awash river through the Danakil country to discover where and how it ended . |
| 6 | Robert , gasping for breath in his arms , wondered whether Mr Malik 's request for him to give an account of himself was entirely motivated by concern for his staff . |
| 7 | Since you will hold the seller 's share certificate until you hand it over to the buyer on completion together with a transfer of it to the buyer , it 's for you to prepare the transfer , unless you send the certificate to the buyer 's conveyancers for them to prepare the transfer . |
| 8 | It is not in anyone 's interest for you to contact the police yourself . |
| 9 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |