Example sentences of "for [art] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 2 | Here 's your chance to air your views and put your questions to the people responsible for the programmes you hear on Radio 2 ! |
| 3 | A chance to air your views and put your questions to the people responsible for the programmes you hear on Radio 2 . |
| 4 | They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you . |
| 5 | Finally , I would observe that the justice in this case is not to be criticised for the decision she reached on the Friday , which was based on advice given her by a legally qualified court clerk , reinforced by the submission of the representative of the Crown Prosecution Service and acquiesced in by the defendant 's solicitor . |
| 6 | Occupying their own apartments at the palace and giving little heed to the prevailing rumour that the king was unwell , neither she nor Joan was prepared for the tidings they received on that April afternoon . |
| 7 | the diarist ; for the sermon he heard on respect for the priestly office , see The Diary of Samuel Pepys , entry for 9 Aug. 1663 . |
| 8 | All the same , Americans are naturally most comfortable with what they know , and Mr Major 's win is obviously welcome to people in power — both for reassuring them about their closest ally in Europe and for the omens it casts on their own politics . |
| 9 | But nothing could have prepared Gould for the transformation he witnessed on the journey back to Yarrundi from Maitland . |
| 10 | I was always impressed by the quality of the students ' preparation for the lessons I observed on my weekly visits to them and by their willing capacity to learn by their mistakes . |
| 11 | Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced . |
| 12 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 13 | He originally planned to earn enough cash selling computers to pay for the time he spent on the race track . |
| 14 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 15 | We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth . |
| 16 | But these later pieces are of most use for the light they shed on the earlier development . |
| 17 | The letter is interesting , though , for the light it casts on his rooted dread of mental imbalance , and on his horrified feeling that the unsatisfactory relations which had existed between himself and his father since eariy adolescence might somehow mar him for the rest of his life : You and I are both qualified for it [ neurosis ] because we were both afraid of our fathers as children . |
| 18 | Still , it would be churlish not to greet this release for the light it casts on an age long gone . |
| 19 | It 's a curiosity , of course , and perhaps best thought of that way , for the light it throws on Mozart 's attitude to the musical past . |
| 20 | The anecdote is instructive for the light it throws on changing relationships with clinicians . |
| 21 | er she 'd came home , she said I 'm not dancing no more I 'm finished so we said alright fair enough , she 's joining er trying for the police she comes on holiday with us in the October , she come home September , come on holiday with me in October she met this young fellow , she got engaged at Christmas and they 're getting married they , they |
| 22 | For a minute she remained on the landing , shaking with humiliation and rage . |
| 23 | For a while I sat on the edge of the bed until Benjamin joined me . |
| 24 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 25 | If Marguerite noticed Jenna 's crimson cheeks she chose to ignore it , but Claudine missed nothing and when they were alone for a moment she turned on Jenna with flashing dark eyes . |
| 26 | For a time I leaned on a rail and watched the rushing waters where the rivers Boyne and Blackwater combine . |
| 27 | Police indicated that they would charge him under Zimbabwe 's Law and Order Maintenance Act for a statement he issued on Monday accusing the government of ‘ state terrorism ’ against students . |
| 28 | For every dollar you spend on software , he alleges that you 'll spend between one and a half and two dollars simply on getting that software to work the other software you have . |
| 29 | In addition , for every £1 we spend on food , we spend a further 50p on alcohol and 22p on cigarettes . |
| 30 | For every £1 we spend on food , on average we spend 22p on tobacco . |