Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 2 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 3 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 4 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 5 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 6 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 7 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 8 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 9 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 10 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 11 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 12 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |
| 13 | Then she asked her Mum to find something for me . |
| 14 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 15 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 16 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 17 | It followed radiotherapy to treat her for cancer . |
| 18 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 19 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
| 20 | Right so Steve is undertaking to be the next brave soldier to write something for |
| 21 | He went upstairs to his shattered bedroom to fetch it for Harry . |
| 22 | It was a real pleasure to win something for a change but unfortunately I do n't like knitting . |
| 23 | Dad , I could n't decide which card to give you for your birthday . |
| 24 | ‘ What had you in mind to pursue him for ? ’ |
| 25 | He had the impertinence to berate me for knee-jerk reactions on behalf of the Government when he opposes absolutely everything that the Government do , however sensible it obviously is . |
| 26 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 27 | They 'll say I took advantage of a widow 's grief to marry her for her money , then cold-bloodedly ditched her as soon as I had a chance . |
| 28 | I 've a good mind to ask him for it after all . " |
| 29 | Neil 's origins made his presence in the East End even stranger — and he had the impertinence to quiz her for her presence , when his own was just as odd . |
| 30 | I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did . |