Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 2 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 3 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 4 | Head of Department : ‘ Quadruple sessions are needed , particularly for ‘ O ’ Level groups , as they must pace themselves for a 3 hour drawing exam . ’ |
| 5 | So if the carriages are at the right , you must set them for an anti-clockwise circle , if they 're at the left , for a clockwise circle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 6 | The 200 units under her command should brace themselves for a forthright style . |
| 7 | President Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania warned on May 18 , in an address to the Lithuanian Supreme Council , that the republic should brace itself for a renewed clampdown by Soviet armed forces in the light of " armed provocations " along the republic 's borders . |
| 8 | He did n't know when he 'd be back and she should cancel everything for the next several days . |
| 9 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 10 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 11 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 12 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 13 | I 'll do it for a hundred and thirty quid no more ! |
| 14 | ‘ … I 'll do it for the Young Farmers sometime . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 16 | I 'll swap you for an old X T Myrtle |
| 17 | Oh and I 'll have one for the last card . |
| 18 | He said to Mariana , ‘ I 'll take her for a few minutes . |
| 19 | I 'll take you for a closer look . ’ |
| 20 | After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’ |
| 21 | But I 'll pay you for the two lots of coffee . |
| 22 | For a meal , and like , we were really keen to try this and everything , and we , we did n't , we sort of kept saying , oh shall we open this bottle tonight , and they said no , we 'll save it for a special occasion . |
| 23 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 24 | Mm , they 'll last him for a long , long time . |
| 25 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 26 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 27 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 28 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 29 | Confusion was muddling her responses , putting up barriers where she 'd give anything for a free and open path forward … |
| 30 | Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while . |