Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 2 | It is essential therefore , that you identify and appreciate the historian 's viewpoint , follow the individual steps in his arguments and pinpoint the specific reasons he offers for his views . |
| 3 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 4 | Under fire from referees for his comments as a defence witness at Salisbury Crown Court last week , Kelly retorted : ‘ When someone is facing a prison sentence and all the immediate trauma that it involves for his family , I believe the sensitivities of referees should come second rather than first . ’ |
| 5 | Patrol tasks include keeping a particular lookout for flat-bed lorries , which are used by the IRA as baseplates for their inaccurate and random , but nonetheless effective , homemade mortars . |
| 6 | Frank , going ahead of her to the boat , turns for her . |
| 7 | As he is a very busy person he begs for your report to be in note form listing the public to be reached and the media you select . |
| 8 | And they are demanding massive insurance cover from Eastern Suburbs when Martin Offiah plays for them next summer . |
| 9 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 10 | This process has regularly been the subject of corruption as civil servants or ministers connected with the award of the tender have sought backhanders for themselves and their associates . |
| 11 | One company that puts all its business out to tender is Ranks Hovis McDougall , which spends around £18 million per year on electricity supplies for its 60-plus production sites in the UK . |
| 12 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 13 | Guess who baby sits for my full-time working daughter ? |
| 14 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 15 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week . |
| 16 | … when he chuses for his skilful Tongue |
| 17 | On May 25 contra leaders had suspended an earlier agreement to disband , signed on May 4 , claiming that government guarantees for their protection were insufficient and that troops of the Sandinista People 's Army ( EPS ) had massacred 14 demobilized contras in Waslala , 300 km north of the capital , Managua . |
| 18 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 19 | He rarely seizes the imagination by exhibiting the higher excellencies , nor does he captivate us by that originality which attends the Painter who thinks for himself . |
| 20 | What you are trying to do is to develop an employee who thinks for himself . |
| 21 | ‘ It thinks for itself . |
| 22 | While the bookies adjust their odds , the pressure builds for him . ’ |
| 23 | Percy the park-keeper rescues the animals when their old oak tree is blown down in a storm , and the new house he builds for them is presented in a fold-away poster at the end of the book . |
| 24 | The newly formed Control Data Systems Inc ( UX No 387 ) , is currently designing a higher performance , higher clock-speed implementation of MIPS Computer Systems Inc 's R6000 ECL RISC — possibly utilising multiple CPU modules — which it will announce later this year for the 4860MP quad-processor that MIPS builds for it , according to chief executive officer , James Ousley . |
| 25 | Except in those countries such as Ireland , Greece and Portugal , where the benefits of Federalism are largely measured in terms of the largesse it produces for them , greater comprehension of what is going on has brought growing anxiety about it . |
| 26 | The CAA recently received a communication from the French Director of Civil Aviation advising that a British pilot who was alleged to have infringed height regulations while on a private flight over France was banned from acting as a crew member on any aircraft operating within airspace under French sovereignty for one year — inconvenient for a PPL keen on touring , potentially disastrous for anyone who flies for his living . |
| 27 | Next time my instinct for a holiday , as it does in so much else , cries for something hot and cheap , I shall stay my hand . |
| 28 | The knight cries for his mother |
| 29 | If an expert sues for his fees , the entitlement and/or the amount could be challenged in court only by reference to the contract made by the parties about the fees . |
| 30 | It was also in a serious financial position but believed the new Regulations would lead to a general amelioration of the deficit position through the ability to earn increased Board of Education grants for its Chapter III work . |