Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] for [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , the script called for me to look beat-up and dishevelled . |
| 2 | For example there is a local , laboratory , personal , cultural , peer group , arbitrary criterion established for what constitutes a tolerable , i.e. not dangerous , maximal stimulus and response . |
| 3 | The letters of the machine used for it had been brushed clean and the worn ribbon replaced at some time after the letter was typed , but all the other characteristics including misalignment of the ‘ d ’ and the unreliable shift control — had shown up in the enlargement and eventually confirmed that Wickham had found the machine he was seeking . |
| 4 | The remaining five Fulmars which had led the Hurricanes in were to stay on the island , although the original plan called for them to fly on to Maleme ( Crete ) , where they were to assist the Fulmars of 805 Squadron in the defence of that island . |
| 5 | In the long run , the obvious consequence of this is that the more frequently a word occurs the lower the threshold of its logogen will be , and hence the less activation of the logogen needed for it to reach threshold . |
| 6 | Roses and orchids are too obviously beautiful , and so they lack this remnant of grace : maybe , if there is any harmony left for us to discover , maybe we shall as soon apprehend it in dog shit or an old man 's spittle , sizzling on the grate . |
| 7 | Unlikely though it seemed to students and friends of the scholarly and bespectacled professor , he had at this period worked for what became SOE ( a kind of work for which his precision of mind , excellent memory and linguistic ability pre-eminently qualified him : he contrived among other exploits to smuggle the leader of the Bulgarian Peasant Party out of the country into Turkey in a truck ) . |
| 8 | Once you have passed the framing stage the only job left for you to do is to finish the back and make it as airtight as possible , to prevent any damp reaching the pressed flower material . |
| 9 | They can be planted anywhere in the general scheme , mixed with herbaceous perennials , annuals , bulbs , shrubs or roses , provided the site chosen for them supplies their requirements , as with any garden plant . |
| 10 | Swainson 's original contract called for him to produce volumes at three-month intervals ; he had already done preliminary work for his abortive encyclopedia , but even so the rate of production envisaged is astonishing , and it is not surprising that Swainson failed to keep up with his timetable . |
| 11 | THE wife of a man who went missing from his Darlington home three weeks ago last night pleaded for him to come home . |
| 12 | There was only one person left for him to call . |
| 13 | To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers . |
| 14 | , an avid fan and greyhound owner arranged for us to have the Board Room with the luxury of our own bar , video screens and boxes for viewing each of the 12 races . |
| 15 | Some of the people looked as if they had been torn apart by animals with more in the way of teeth and claws than the Good Lord intended for them to have . |
| 16 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |
| 17 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 18 | We were glad of the good fish my father brought for us to celebrate with . |
| 19 | To Lan 's astonishment her father signalled for her to approach the altar next ; as she was the youngest she had expected to go last , but her father was clearly singling Kim out for special treatment by allowing her to precede him . |
| 20 | Punctual arrival at the head of the queue which formed up by 9:15 on the January Monday morning meant for him rising in the small hours and manoeuvring a moped along frozen lanes to catch the milk train from Kingham to Paddington , but he never failed to appear . |
| 21 | Got one week left for them to come after that . |
| 22 | His real interests , however , increasingly came to lie in science and eventually his father paid for him to attend University College London , where he studied chemistry . |
| 23 | He saw Richmann 's clubbing motion with the gun almost before it happened , and a voice from the past called for him to run . |
| 24 | New evidence has been revealed about the murder of the pregnant mother Marie Wilkes which may cast doubt on the guilt of the man jailed for her killing . |
| 25 | Uncle had been in bed for about a month by then , so the doctor arranged for him to go into hospital in Barnard Castle . |
| 26 | Statistically , there is not a lot left for him to prove . |
| 27 | Statistically , there is not a lot left for him to prove . |
| 28 | Liza , in the next room , having hardly slept at all since her disastrous meeting with Freddie Nash , lay awake , now resolved that there was only one thing left for her to do . |
| 29 | The Socialists had captured a large number of the Councils and Boards of Guardians throughout the country , and there was only one thing left for them to take charge of — the British Empire . |
| 30 | But now there was only one thing left for him to do , and that he did , before the shock of Glendower 's assault sheared deep into his ranks , hardly slowed by the few casualties caused by the English archers . |