Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 2 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 3 | Randalstown are the side everyone tipped for league glory . |
| 4 | Also , as an immigrant to Canada , I can affirm it 's more pleasant living where problems are met with cheerful optimism instead of the sullen whining which passes for debate in Britain . |
| 5 | In Such an alternative world is proposed , a world of indeterminacy which allows for variation and flux , with a theory of identity to match it . |
| 6 | We will continue to look closely at mergers in the brewing industry which fall for consideration under the fair trading legislation . |
| 7 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 8 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 9 | One of the founders so admired the puritan he stood for Parliament in 1968 under the banner of the John Hampden New Freedom Party . |
| 10 | The defenders were unsuccessful in their arguments on the interpretation of the clause in the contract which provided for payment of 75 per cent of the price on delivery . |
| 11 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 12 | Second , there is empirical work which looks for evidence that fiscal considerations play any part at all in the decision of individuals to reside in a particular locality . |
| 13 | What all ( bar for some reason ‘ Memorial ’ Vol. 1 ) have in common is the inclusion of takes from the now-famous November 26th 1945 quintet session which represents for jazz — and bebop in particular — something akin to what Woodstock would later be for another generation ( but without the audience participation ) . |
| 14 | I am satisfied , therefore , that the issue which arises for determination , that is whether it is in the children 's interests that the mother should be permitted to live with them in England or whether they should be brought up in Australia where they could have more frequent contact with their father , may properly be determined in either court . |
| 15 | And this album continues that tradition , presenting a boggling variety of melody and pace , which , only once , on ‘ You Surround Me ’ , resorts to the awful ‘ Oxygene'-style bubbling rumble which passes for rhythm in the world where the programmer is king . |
| 16 | ‘ Darlington Business Venture helped me put a package together and draw up a business plan which qualified for Enterprise Allowance . ’ |
| 17 | The second question which arises for determination is whether the proceeding before the justice or justices , if there happens to be more than one justice before whom the person arrested is brought under section 7(5) , necessitates the giving of evidence on oath with the opportunity to the person arrested or his legal representative to cross-examine and the person arrested having the opportunity to give evidence himself , before the justice of the peace may properly form an opinion on the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) . |
| 18 | Cost may well be a big influence on all your decisions , but choose the venue not only with regard to the quantity and type of work you have for display but also the likely customers it will attract , and therefore its location . |
| 19 | You get the child who plays for safety and draws what he has drawn before . |
| 20 | Case given , you have a child who to ask for baptism , him or herself . |
| 21 | Designs are now being considered for small ice-lined cabinets for doctors ’ surgeries , so that doctors can have vaccines at hand to immunise any child who comes for treatment . |
| 22 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 23 | In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths . |
| 24 | In the Second Test we struggled for possession and spent the whole match backpedalling ’ . |
| 25 | To the eyes of a child they stand for adventure . |
| 26 | The steersman 's platform , with the huge horizontal rudder bar he used for steering , was right beside them . |
| 27 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 28 | It seems that that recent $1m+ investment in Chorus Systemes SA by Altus Finance , a subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais , one of Europe 's largest banks ( UX No 382 ) , has spurred Unix System Laboratories to increase its $1m investment in the firm just to maintain its share : however , the companies do n't want to reveal how much USL added to the kitty or what percentage it controls for fear of giving away the valuation . |
| 29 | This early departure , she thinks , explains the lack of attachment she has for home , for her Welshness . |
| 30 | If Labour wins the election , I imagine all scientists will emigrate anyway , but a new Conservative government should give serious thought to my proposal for deporting any research scientist who asks for government money . |