Example sentences of "for [pers pn] and [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Services deserve the excellent pay and conditions which we have secured for them and will maintain . |
| 2 | Instead of sending donations to different charities direct , providing the minimum annual sum is over £120 a year ( or over £10 a month ) , donors can ‘ gift ’ the money to CAF who will maintain a ‘ charity cheque account ’ for them and will distribute the money to whichever charities they nominate . |
| 3 | Many had been decaying steadily for years : their owners had no use for them and could not imagine that anyone else would . |
| 4 | Jill would work for me if Uncle was n't around but as soon as he appeared she did n't care a fig for me and would be off to see what he wanted to do . |
| 5 | An icy wind was blowing , but the moment Modi saw me he came and said , quite casually , as if referring to something he did n't need in the least : ‘ Look here , I 'll sell you my overcoat , it 's much too big for me and should fit you nicely . ’ ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That right is a natural punch for me and could be the best I 've ever thrown , it felt so good and I did n't get any shock at all up my arm . |
| 7 | Or perhaps I should just wait here — perhaps someone 's gone into town to look for me and will come back eventually — ’ |
| 8 | Use a red pencil to underline the things you think are not so good for you and should be restricted . |
| 9 | I have some mail for you and will call out the names . ’ |
| 10 | Provided the problem comes within the Ombudsman 's orbit , he will look into all the facts for you and will inform you of his decision , together with his reasons . |
| 11 | If you failed to work your beat and the sergeant went looking for you and could n't find you , you 'd be reported and land before the chief constable . |
| 12 | He would be forced to eat what was placed before him because pigs ' trotters were good for him and would help him to grow . |
| 13 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 14 | If he did , the police would know where to look for him and would catch him . |
| 15 | In addition , his solicitors were continuing to act for him and could , if they had wished , have obtained a copy of the committal order from the court . |
| 16 | Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness . |
| 17 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 18 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 19 | This lets you monitor the demand that there is for it and will provide a sound basis for decisions about the possible expansion of your video facilities in the future . |
| 20 | Potter paddled for it and could have made it . |
| 21 | So I went looking for it and could n't find it ! |
| 22 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's had a tough 18 months because he has n't played much football , but he will be very good for us and will get better . |