Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You told her you had n't been able to get her out of your mind and begged for another chance . |
| 2 | The best thing about Christmas is buying well thought out gifts that will give pleasure and use for many years to come . |
| 3 | Raising the trapdoor a little more so he could see out , he cautiously pushed out the barrel of the shotgun and checked for any sign of enemy personnel , as best as he could in his limited field of vision . |
| 4 | Fabia got into the vehicle and wondered for some moments about his employer . |
| 5 | Then a man-at-arms whom they recognised as being one of the leaders of the expedition reappeared in the village and stayed for several days . |
| 6 | They seek to restrict town-based owners to one dog per household and legislate for all puppies to be neutered before being sold . |
| 7 | He moved along the hedge , feeling the breeze from the south and looking for some spot where he could sit and scent it without too much risk . |
| 8 | Your help and support for both events will be much appreciated . |
| 9 | This junction was constructed as part of the Burdiehouse Bypass but two slip-roads have been added to the Gilmerton Bypass which will complete this two-level interchange and cater for all traffic movements . |
| 10 | The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials . |
| 11 | Faintly bluish spots may develop at the site of a louse bite and persist for several days . |
| 12 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 13 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
| 14 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 15 | However , it is impossible to attend to approaches to teaching and learning for this stage without attending to how students are learning prior to this " ( Versey 1989:23 ) . |
| 16 | A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden . |
| 17 | Although they may explain homosexuality in terms of learning , they assume a common biological basis and process for this learning , and see the condition itself as homogeneous . |
| 18 | The salvation and solace for this state of mind is art , which converts thoughts of loathing into ideas it is possible to live with : horror is tamed and made sublime , while what had been disgusting absurdity becomes comic . |
| 19 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 20 | The Institution regrets any misunderstanding which may have arisen from the article and apologises for any offence or inconvenience caused to G.L. Watson and Company and Mr J Allen McLachlan . |
| 21 | Its principal strengths lie in the ability to ( a ) make selective use of available visual cues ( for fluent readers much of the visual stimulus remains unattended [ Just & Carpenter , 1987 ] ) and ( b ) utilise an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process and compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 22 | Cooking procedures : add boiling water and leave for several minutes to rehydrate . |
| 23 | Instead , control your impatience and wait for another week or so before testing the material again . |
| 24 | For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants . |
| 25 | ‘ He sat down and we wanted to get on with the game and try for another goal , so I wanted him off . |
| 26 | ‘ They might be favourites but if we stick to our passing game and play for each other we can shock them . ’ |
| 27 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 28 | She did n't want to hear , but she held her breath and listened for any sound . |
| 29 | First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time . |
| 30 | We would have to see a whole change of pattern and thinking for all clubs and all players in April . |