Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose if I lived in Middlesbrough I might vote for Stuart Bell , the Labour barrister who fought such a courageous battle on behalf of the families in the awful Cleveland affair . |
| 2 | In this study I shall refer for convenience and anonymity to ‘ pollution control agencies ’ . |
| 3 | Mummy I 'll go for blue . |
| 4 | Any personal animosity she might feel for Niall Grant must be set aside . |
| 5 | If you have a lot of pictures on the walls this will light them beautifully as well as providing all the light you will need for comfort and safety . |
| 6 | As a little compensation I begged Captain King to let us remove either to Bruny , or to Muscle Bay , which would make very little difference when once the wind set in fair , and it was accordingly settled that at daylight we should sail for Muscle Bay . ’ |
| 7 | As a rule he would wait for others — judges , opponents , even his wife — to decide matters of importance . |
| 8 | Whenever I wanted a guest to be really entertained at one of our functions I would send for Tommy and ask him to look after them . |
| 9 | Lord Denning MR said : Every member of the community is entitled to carry on any trade or business he chooses and in such manner as he thinks most desirable in his own interests , so long as he does nothing unlawful : with the consequence that any contract which interferes with the free exercise of his trade or business , by restricting him in the work he may do for others , or the arrangements which he may make with others , is a contract in restraint of trade . |
| 10 | Of course , if a museum wants to purchase a work it can ask for donations from banks , industries and other institutions . |
| 11 | With more hair she could pass for Springsteen being playful in the dark . |
| 12 | At the end of your training contract you may apply for admission as a solicitor . |
| 13 | When I was a kid it was great because you could go to the music store , put down your money and get something like an SG Junior — not an expensive guitar but a really good guitar all the same , a guitar you could keep for life . |
| 14 | Are there any limits to how many times you can stand for councillor ? |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Dalglish knows the job I can do for Blackburn — I presume it will be in midfield . ’ |
| 16 | The only thing you could do is get the , you know that kind of plastic edging you can get for wall tiles |
| 17 | In our opinion you should aim for outline notes with the more difficult parts expanded in greater detail . |
| 18 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 19 | There is no suggestion even in the passage quoted earlier from the Acts that as Christians we should strive for communism and equality — rather our concern within the church community should be a genuine caring for those in need . |
| 20 | Out of many systematic works from this period we may select for mention two , both titled Theology of Revelation : that by Latourelle ( 1968 ) , which is more historically based , and that by Moran ( 1967 ) , which focuses more on the experience of revelation as personal communion . |
| 21 | Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty . |
| 22 | And when they were when they were out of er of er anybody to dig the graves They used to send for father . |
| 23 | And from Alan the new flats here , Norman helped by Dave and other members has been constructing substantial timber stroke hardboard flats although a bit heavier than the conventional canvas they will last for years and they really do provide superb sets as has been proved with all three plays presented this year . |
| 24 | Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George . |
| 25 | He has to watch the actor he would replace for signs of strain or imminent collapse and wonder nervously whether he could actually remember the lines if he had to go on . |
| 26 | Things I 'll do for people ! |
| 27 | By day you can see for miles , and at night the moon shines brightly out of cloudless skies . |
| 28 | On a cloudless day you can see for miles . |
| 29 | To assess the impact of more differentiated media sources we can look for differences between their different audiences : differences between readers of highbrow or lowbrow papers , for example , or between readers of right-wing and left-wing papers . |
| 30 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |