Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among sheets from different periods of his career , she offers for sale the series of six ‘ Cold Mountain ’ etchings ( 1991 ) inspired , as were the recent paintings , by Chinese calligraphy and Tang Dynasty poetry . |
| 2 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 3 | At the weekend the Stall offers for sale the usual selection of Catholic newspapers and Catholic Truth Society publications , rosary beads and medals , prayer cards and candles . |
| 4 | Recent contracts have included the Forth Port privatisation ; the Scottish Television and Grampian TV franchises ; the Kenwood and Country Casuals offers for sale ; and the Evode and RHM defence documents . |
| 5 | The capitalist buys the labour power which the worker offers for hire . |
| 6 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 7 | In this regard , evidence of alternative third party offers for Target should be sought , as well as formal valuations . |
| 8 | What makes the new round of work potentially so profitable is the scope it offers for experiment . |
| 9 | An intellectual ripper , which veers between poetry and pretentiousness . |
| 10 | The tide flows strongly in favour of the populist , the valueless public library … the Library service has lost its soul and , desperately seeking some justification for its existence , veers between pop-marketing in imitation of the big chains — the McDonald 's and Burger Kings of the printed word — and trying to be a sub-branch of information processing . |
| 11 | I take good care to emphasise that the sensation as we stall and recover is not a symptom and that it can occur in normal flight and in some cases when the aircraft flies through turbulence . |
| 12 | The departmental application server fits between Sun 's 500-user Sparcserver 10 and the high-end 3,000-user SparcCenter 2000 . |
| 13 | The departmental application server fits between Sun 's 500-user Sparcserver 10 and the high-end 3,000-user SparcCenter 2000 . |
| 14 | Child sleeps through joyride chase drama |
| 15 | One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) . |
| 16 | ‘ You know what the Church thinks about marriage and divorce . |
| 17 | Yet I doubt they have meat more than once a week — and I doubt he thinks about money from one year 's end to the other . ’ |
| 18 | He thinks about football rigorously , and stresses how much more difficult it is to play against an Italian attack . |
| 19 | JOHN MAY , Cornwall 's answer to Jeff Probyn , often thinks about retirement . |
| 20 | After every fight , he says , he thinks about retirement and he intends to give it more consideration that usual in the New Year , vowing that when he quits he 'll do so as world champion . |
| 21 | In order to find out more of what this writer thinks about imitation , we are in a position to consult a work by him where a treatise on the subject is developed at intervals and where he writes in propria persona . |
| 22 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 23 | I do n't know what she thinks about television , but she seems to enjoy the music on the car radio whenever we 're going to lectures . |
| 24 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 25 | The advantages to the reader are that he ‘ turns for help to the professional staff ; he learns to appreciate that his needs are not restricted by the limitations of the bookstock of one library . |
| 26 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 27 | For the gesture of revolt begs for understanding . |
| 28 | 1942 Articled to firm of Johannesburg solicitors ; enrols for law degree at Witwatersrand University |
| 29 | I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now . |
| 30 | There is a danger in reading the classics , in that they can come to be regarded simply as literature — so always try to look at them as plays for performance — and , it goes without saying , try to see as much theatre as you can . |