Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 4 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 5 | Indeed , the day before he had received Karl Rahner to thank him for his work for the Council . |
| 6 | Which reminds me you still have n't written to Geoffrey and Jean to thank them for your birthday money have we ? |
| 7 | Dad , I could n't decide which card to give you for your birthday . |
| 8 | The Spirit of the Lord , the ruach adonai passes to David to equip him for his princely service . |
| 9 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 13 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 14 | However , even when the genetic indices are expressed in money terms , farmers and their advisers will need help to interpret them for their own individual situation in these early days . |
| 15 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 16 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 17 | It is also crucial to ask whether the media are able to cope with this growth in information and whether they can do anything to counter the efforts of governments to manipulate it for their own ends . |
| 18 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 19 | Here she was with an opportunity to do something for her mother , something she had always dreamed of doing , and she would have to refuse . |
| 20 | NAME Solicitors have been instructed to act for you in claiming damages to compensate you for your injury . |
| 21 | PUPILS at De La Salle RC School , Carr Lane in Liverpool , will tomorrow be awarded a certificate from a health charity to reward them for their hard work in fundraising . |
| 22 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 23 | He had the grace to thank me for my co-operation . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Certainly , Doctor , if you say so , ’ she replied sweetly , containing the urge to crown him for his patronising ignorance . |
| 25 | A fiery orator , and self-styled leader of the persecuted and oppressed , consumed with a reckless urge to sacrifice himself for his ideals . |
| 26 | She could act the loving spouse as well as fitzAlan , she decided , succumbing to a rare mischievous impulse to repay him for his earlier comments . |
| 27 | On these pages we show you two very different settings and ways to adapt them for your festivities at home . |
| 28 | The night before the recording I read through the play again — this time in a more technical and objective manner to prepare myself for my performance . |
| 29 | On Saturday 70 of the people Mrs Harding has regularly visited came to the Spennymoor day centre to thank her for her work . |
| 30 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |