Example sentences of "[pron] for [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , so he said well charge me for wheel balancing then or something no he said , we ca n't do that . |
| 2 | A few centres might use them for lake paddling , it was thought , but the serious river paddler would never buy them . |
| 3 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 4 | Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion , at least , the " strangers " in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own " private lucre " than for the benefit of the society , " … this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work … " |
| 5 | However , as the graph indicates , there is a range in which the relationship is roughly linear , which for vegetation growing under natural conditions will depend on the time of year . |
| 6 | British custom string manufacturers Newtone will talk to you for hours explaining their new range of Burns strings . |
| 7 | Those two get one between none none for people peeping through the door though . |
| 8 | Colour Candles from Waddingtons has everything for candle making : wax , dye , wick and moulds . |
| 9 | That is to say , so long as there was some incomplete aspect of the book 's publication , there was something for people attacking it to focus on . |
| 10 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide hours before police stopped him for drink driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 11 | Yeah , yeah it 's not compatible or summat er it 's compatible with his telly when he has n't got the Sky on and if he 's got the Sky on he 's got to mess about I sat watching him for days messing with it and then I says to him have you got it on your V U channel ? |
| 12 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 13 | It 's a difficult job to look at the legislation and see a way through it for organisations dealing with homelessness — there is no way through it . |
| 14 | So you ca n't use it for eaves dropping . |
| 15 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 16 | All he needed was the money and support and he could produce it for Argentina using local materials . |
| 17 | It would not be acceptable to anyone for ships using United Kingdom ports to be treated differently . |
| 18 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 19 | By taking responsibility themselves for stock checking their titles with Dillons stores and reordering accordingly , publishers hope to boost their presence across the group . |