Example sentences of "[vb base] for [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 2 | I 've already got one , I 'm not bothered about that , I mean for kids I think , I think it 's a good idea because well then they do n't lay on it |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate . |
| 5 | Hunt for mole who revealed plans of the Royal bedrooms |
| 6 | Hunt for muggers who put knife to baby 's face |
| 7 | This is going to cause chaos in the studios and even more chaos in the home as viewers desperately hunt for shows they saw last week and which have mysteriously disappeared . |
| 8 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |
| 9 | But it is contradicted by Nationwide 's house prices index for November which shows a 2% fall in prices . |
| 10 | If say for instance one moved headlong down the road to European political union and Westminster ended up with something like the powers of Puddlewick District Council |
| 11 | When you act for buyers who intend that a leasehold interest shall merge in the freehold ( leaseholders buying the freehold reversion on their lease , or freeholders buying the lease to which their title is subject ) it 's convenient to express the intention to merge in the transfer or other instrument vesting the second estate in the owner of the first if this is intended , but beware of such an application in the case of a flat — if , for example , your client owns a leasehold flat and buys the freehold of the whole building in which it is situate . |
| 12 | Get advice from your clinic about early intervention treatment options and support for people who have positive results . |
| 13 | Look for products which contain a minimum 40% protein and no more than 5% fibre content — and also state that the vitamins and minerals have been added . |
| 14 | In cases where it is preferable to use new paper , such as coffee filters and sanitary products look for paper which has not been bleached with chlorine gas . |
| 15 | That 's what I used to do with Marie — look for food they chucked away cos it was bashed up and that . |
| 16 | Healthy eaters look for food which has good nutritional quality . |
| 17 | When I caddy for Matt he made loads of putts , it 's was well cool . |
| 18 | When will these people realise that the game is widely played — often rather better outside ‘ The Smoke ’ and cater for viewers who happen to live north of Watford . |
| 19 | If a subject has more than one name , a library catalogue or index must bring all material on that subject together ( within the limitations of the scope of the collection or index ) under one of those names , and also cater for users who use different names . |
| 20 | They cater for people who need both nursing supervision and a lot of practical help . |
| 21 | Two special schools sponsored by the RNIB cater for pupils who have significant handicaps in addition to blindness . |
| 22 | You know for polishers you know , when the boat was |
| 23 | It 's about time we got something , do n't , you know for months we scratched round looking like we 're busy , now we 're meeting ourselves backwards , coming backwards . |
| 24 | Suppose for instance we hypothesise that cooperative conversationalists would ask others for their opinion very frequently and regularly express agreement . |
| 25 | Suppose for instance you see some visibly sighted person make a phone call in broad daylight , and hear them say that it 's pitch dark . |
| 26 | I suppose for people who put the |
| 27 | There 's a place where they go for lunch you see |
| 28 | we bring them all in and , and when we go for breaks we look through them and decide where we 're gon na go next year . |
| 29 | So those people , when we go for assembly they stay behind and I 'll do the work with them first . |
| 30 | When you are making these settings , go for levels which give good , solid recordings but are not so high as to overload the tape on signal peaks . |