Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Musicians knock 'em for six |
| 2 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 3 | We have offered to produce , on demand , any other communications which braille readers ask us for . |
| 4 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 5 | Now if I could just remind you of what 's happened at the Lyndford Haven er er , Synod , last March erm , the Financial Committee have suggested that we should go for a target of five hundred and ten thousand but er , this is we are not gon na be able to even start looking at the eleven and a half thousand if if er all the provinces do it for months and more and we , I think very bravely or foolishly whatever way you li , look at it , proposed that we should got to five hundred and forty thousand and it looks as thought we 're gon na end up certainly nearer to five ten than five forty . |
| 6 | These are practical sessions where students and tutors prepare themselves for work with children in the second half of the term . |
| 7 | Thus , Marxists blame him for not anticipating Marx , war between classes as they define them ; and the need , as they see it , for a frontal attack upon rights in property . |
| 8 | The guards search him for weapons and open the door to the gallery . |
| 9 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 10 | ‘ It is vital that companies prepare themselves for the new Europe and this initiative will help firms in the south . |
| 11 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 12 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 13 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 14 | What else can all those live debates , public barrackings and strange hours equip you for ? |
| 15 | ‘ The more it develops , the more possibilities suggest themselves for further development . |
| 16 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
| 17 | these days Do it for money , everything right . |
| 18 | The host workers do everything for their parasites , even the most terrible task of all . |
| 19 | Her class members thank her for the years of enjoyment she has given them ; her fellow-teachers thank her for her constant support and friendship . |
| 20 | Her commercials include one for Turkish jeans . |
| 21 | Howar they used to work a lot with finishing the cattle sell them for . |
| 22 | Lot number twenty twenty is a quantity of stands there we are , we 've got a sample showing for you just a sample showing fifty for the lot the whole lot there for fifty pounds at fifty pounds want them for fifty pounds thank you sir , fifty pounds I 've got , at fifty five going on fifty five , sixty pounds , sixty five coming in sir ? |
| 23 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 24 | The reason why aluminium is so toxic is that living things mistake it for iron . |
| 25 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 26 | The Editors thank you for your continued support as members of the Society and your interest in the ‘ Medau News ’ . |
| 27 | Erm , Chair , delegates thank you for the welcome and thank you for the invitation to speak to you . |
| 28 | Let's see if the cabbies have something for us . ’ |
| 29 | This is being pragmatically run — many stories need someone for radio and someone for Television . |
| 30 | Being totally exposed , the rabbits hightail it for home and , broad daylight or not , run headlong into the nets . |