Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 2 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 3 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 4 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 5 | And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release . |
| 6 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 7 | Imagine — with Air Miles you do n't have to wait for your annual summer holidays to come around . |
| 8 | On the other , we have still to wait for our final adoption at the Second Coming ( Rom. 8:23 ) . |
| 9 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 10 | The study of landscape is one of the oldest sub-disciplines within geography , but during the quantitative revolution of the 1960s and early 1970s such work was roundly criticized for its descriptive nature and its search for uniqueness . |
| 11 | The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims . |
| 12 | Although the investigation had resulted in the conviction of 34 individuals and four corporations and secured damages of nearly $32,000,000 , it was increasingly criticized for its slow pace . |
| 13 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | The scientific management approach was criticized for its naive preoccupation with financial or extrinsic rewards , and for ignoring intrinsic needs for affiliation , self-esteem and self-actualization . |
| 15 | But the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railway companies were criticized for their poor provision of workmen 's trains in 1892 and a parliamentary select committee was still pressing for the provision of cheap trains for workers in 1905 . |
| 16 | Of these , the latter two were especially criticized for their poor records of arrest and/or inactivity ; records perhaps best viewed in the light of the legislation they sought to enforce , the complexity of the offences they where obliged to detect , and last , but by no means least , the limited resources , in terms of finance , manpower , and expertise , made available to them . |
| 17 | Marius Steen was often criticized for his healthy disrespect for ‘ Art ’ and there are many stories of this supposed philistinism which he loved to tell against himself ( On first hearing of Michelangelo , he is reputed to have asked ‘ Michael who ? ’ |
| 18 | Gao Dai , whom Deng had earlier criticized for his hardline views , appeared to revise his stance by publishing in June an article which was highly critical of " leftism " . |
| 19 | The females evolve to be larger and brighter coloured than the males , and control harems of dull-coloured egg-sitters , competing for their domestic skills against other acquisitive and territorial females . |
| 20 | He referred to the help he had received for his humble efforts during the year of his mayoralty ( 1811 ) . |
| 21 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 22 | For example , if you permit the meeting to start late , because not everyone has arrived , then those who come on time are being punished for their good behaviour ! |
| 23 | At his trial last year he was told he should be punished for his wicked driving . |
| 24 | He taught her history : the story of Pelopidas and Epaminondas ; he taught her geography , taking a shovel and pail of water into the garden , where he would build for her instructive peninsulas , islands , gulfs and promontories . |
| 25 | Sir Anthony 's lips slid over his small teeth in what passed for his public smile , and he accepted , without waiting for their answer . |
| 26 | They settled with their drinks at the corner table and the young man shook hands with Patrick , apologising for his bad manners . |
| 27 | Strangely , for a man fighting for sport 's most brutal crown , Bowe finds himself apologising for his obvious lack of aggression in the countdown to his day of destiny . |
| 28 | Many of the members of the Apothecaries ' Society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were distinguished for their scientific attainments … |
| 29 | The protestors claim the support of a former Brazilian government minister sacked for his strong stand on the environment . |
| 30 | They were getting well clear now , even allowing for its unnatural speed . |