Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 2 | Hector stood poised for another blow , but there was no clue to tell him which way to strike . |
| 3 | Keegan said : ‘ A lot of people appreciate what Mick has done for this club . |
| 4 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 5 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 6 | One of the men Stephen had taken for another policeman in plain clothes came closer , looked at the girl 's open blue eyes . |
| 7 | Now , each householder or tenant in a Scottish Homes estate in West Lothian has to pay for this service as well their poll tax . |
| 8 | How we need to pray that for each new church planted there will be those who understand this need and whom God has gifted for this task : to let the scriptures speak , and through the scriptures to let Jesus speak . |
| 9 | But Marian continued to feel for some time that uneasiness in the legs which she knew meant that she wanted to run , to get away fast . |
| 10 | Elisha was the man that God had equipped for that time in history , in that land , and for the specific needs of individual people around him . |
| 11 | But Jones has asked for another week and FA spokesman David Bloomfield said : ‘ We have acceded to his request . ’ |
| 12 | Fedorov had suspected for some time , and now he knew . |
| 13 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
| 14 | Kate had asked for another day of leave to try and get her family affairs sorted out . |
| 15 | Both the Inter-Regional Standing Committee for Art and Design Education ( IRSCADE ) and NATFHE have pressed for some form of national validation of foundation courses and the former organization , having collected views from the colleges offering the courses , has listed five future possibilities . |
| 16 | LEADING lung cancer specialist Ray Donnelly has called for more cash to wipe out the disease which kills 1,600 Merseysiders every year . |
| 17 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 18 | As he journeyed into the darkness of the past , Hughes attempted to compensate for this neglect by capturing the mood on Merseyside 's battered docksides . |
| 19 | Plans for the extension of the war in Vietnam had existed for some time in the Pentagon . |