Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reasons I think for doing it . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , as I say I am now playing the lead in this show , and I think it is about time you sorted out some deal on the money I get for doing it . ’ |
| 3 | And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said . |
| 6 | That 's all the thanks you get for slaving over a hot stove , ’ Mrs Cartwright shouted after us . |
| 7 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 8 | The majority of researchers and theorists are driven by the huge opportunities they see for alleviating world hunger and disease . |
| 9 | The latter approach places more emphasis upon the subjective states of individuals , their feelings , the meanings they attach to events and the motives they have for behaving in particular ways . |
| 10 | They therefore expect the companies they work for to support the providers of those services , in some way , and they want to play their part too , in delivering those services , and I have quite a lot to say about that , later on . |
| 11 | Whatever actual technique we use for taking the sample the key thing is that everyone should be ‘ on the list ’ in the first place . |
| 12 | Now , is that our best hope , is is is is the commercial provision of womens ' magazine is the best hope we have for getting in , in any information we want ? |
| 13 | It is not the question of what in general we say when we assert such conditionals , or what they are about , but the question of what reasons we have for saying what we do . |
| 14 | The reason I joined the G M B and I 'm sure most of you was , in good times the G M B looks for improvements in pay and conditions , in bad times we look for holding on to what we have got . |
| 15 | Three pounds I get for running it . |
| 16 | Civilization 's other important component , in addition to the technical means for controlling nature , is the corpus of regulations which exist for adjusting the relations between men . |
| 17 | She is a kind and thoughtful provider — of home comfort , food , clean sheets , ironed shirts , fresh bread — all the things you take for granted at home . ’ |
| 18 | All the things you take for granted that are going to screw you up in London . |
| 19 | You are not doing anything wrong — its just the price you pay for keeping these species of fish . |
| 20 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 21 | It throws words like real and normal into question , continually challenges and subverts the things we take for granted , the things we think we know . |
| 22 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 23 | For some people this process begins some time before the person they grieve for has died . |
| 24 | Desire and being desired are things they take for granted , but friendship you learn to value , if you are lucky enough to find it . |
| 25 | The first people I babysat for have got two children , and . |
| 26 | It 's one of the kick-backs you get for looking like I look . |
| 27 | Erm sixty six percent of people believe that the people you vote for say they 'll do things for you but once they 're in they forget what they 've said . |
| 28 | We may find something wrong with her , items we need for overwintering in the ice . |
| 29 | Many of the people we care for suffer from other crippling disabilities as well as their blindness . |
| 30 | Reptiles live largely in tropical environments , and the techniques they use for cooling themselves are probably even more important than warming techniques , as we have seen . |