Example sentences of "to [art] [noun sg] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sang a happy little song as he walked to the sitting-room for his morning cigarette . |
| 2 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister for his patience but er on the other hand it could be argued that it 's no use having a duty to report fraud unless you also have a duty to detect fraud . |
| 3 | The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned . |
| 4 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 5 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 6 | The report , which therefore predates WAB , will be presented to the University for its consideration and will carry considerable weight because its membership , which comprises a majority of university members together with representatives from public sector higher education , consists of men of influence . |
| 7 | But it 's unlikely there will ever be an equal to the play for which Christie collected a special award at the age of 82 . |
| 8 | Putting the envelope back on the hall table she went out to the shed for her bike . |
| 9 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 10 | It is tricked out with a handsome jacket and contains the standard acknowledgements , including the author 's thanks to the Universe for her participation in Existence . |
| 11 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 12 | Only too happy to oblige , she slipped out and along to the kitchen for her breakfast . |
| 13 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 14 | Convicted of negligent discharge of oil , Hazelwood was sentenced to 1,000 hours ' community service to help clean up oil-polluted beaches and was ordered to pay US$50,000 in restitution to the state for his part in the spill . |
| 15 | The royal crown of Bohemia , or the crown of St Wenceslas , was the gift of the saint and was entrusted to the king for his lifetime . |
| 16 | Accountability , in its widest sense refers to the responsibility for your actions to someone else . |
| 17 | Later , after leisurely baths , we would go down to the bar for our aperitifs and continue reading or play cards until dinner , which was always excellent and ended with a savoury — an almost obsolete course , sadly . |
| 18 | At midday , everyone returned to the cabin for their lunch . |
| 19 | That , considering the combined contribution the new company must make to the Government for its franchise will be a punishing £50m a year , might prove difficult to resist . |
| 20 | Gen. Martin Bonnet , the Army Chief of Staff , was reported on Oct. 31 to have filed a petition to the government for his retirement and to have requested that his Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Balza replace him until a successor was appointed . |
| 21 | Payment would be made only if the unemployment was involuntary ; disputed claims would be referred to newly appointed local committees consisting of representatives of capital and labour ; workers would be entitled to refuse work under conditions inferior to the norm for their occupation . |
| 22 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 23 | ( 13 ) A petition to the court for its sanction of the scheme . |
| 24 | At any time after adjudication a bankrupt may apply to the court for his discharge , which , if granted , will enable him to start again , stripped of his property , but ( with certain exceptions ) free from any claim which might have been proved against him in the bankruptcy . |
| 25 | The child may apply to the court for his solicitor 's appointment to be terminated . |
| 26 | The nickname here is Rangi , this being given to the person for his prowess with a cricket bat and was so called after an Indian cricketer while another Upper Halling nickname was No Cut Mitchell , this being for his skill in hair cutting . |
| 27 | Presently Dada would go to the yard for his evening duties : a light inspection of the yearlings and a long and absorbing confabulation on their prospects with Fagan . |
| 28 | Quite independent of the social merits of re-using a redundant building to provide comfortable dwellings for local people at modest rents , a main factor encouraging the retention of All Saints Church was the value accorded by the local authority planners to the building for its contribution to the townscape . |
| 29 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 30 | New York–London Make your own way from your hotel to the airport for your return to London . |