Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've 27 turned out at home and I could bring any of them in for all weather racing at any time . |
| 3 | I wrote them down for each person . |
| 4 | To force cyclists to lock and unlock their bikes , detach and reattach shopping bags , lift off children and carry them perhaps for some distance , are all seen as ways of penalising cyclists and by implication encouraging the convenience of car use . |
| 5 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 6 | ‘ Our opinions were , I think , maintained on both sides without full conviction ; Monboddo declared boldly for the savage , and I perhaps for that reason sided with the Citizen . ’ |
| 7 | Can I just for one minute , I only give example |
| 8 | ‘ I never for one moment suspected that you were , ’ he murmured , his eyes suddenly running over her figure . |
| 9 | I never for one moment imagined that , no matter what you thought . ’ |
| 10 | goes , I had to pick all six up for that price , put them away for next year 's presents . |
| 11 | However , the contract expressly left them over for later agreement . |
| 12 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Will you lend him to me just for one night ? ’ |
| 14 | The judge may ask open , vague questions , affording the interviewee plenty of rope to hang himself or herself ; for instance , ‘ Tell me all about yourself ’ , which means , of course , ‘ Tell me specific information about yourself that makes you right for this job . ’ |
| 15 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 16 | He said , rather huskily , ‘ I ca n't thank you enough for this evening . |
| 17 | But your earnings , or savings , rule you out for Legal Aid , and you 're reluctant to splurge money on lawyers . |
| 18 | And she would say , ‘ How long are you here for this time ? ’ praying it would be weeks instead of days … . |
| 19 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 21 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 22 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 23 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 24 | If you 've neglected your legs during the winter and are planning to get them out for some spring sunshine then check out the new Stripwax from Jolen , £3.95 for 36 strips . |
| 25 | Why single me out for this honour ? ’ he mocked . |
| 26 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 27 | But it 's always will , will , will in advance but you 're asking them immediately for more money . |
| 28 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 29 | In the ensuing pandemonium the young musicians played on , but Matron came and took Anna away , scolding her gently for bad behaviour which would not be tolerated once she was settled in . |
| 30 | He had wanted her only for one night . |