Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 2 | Lucy had already decided that this would be the wisest course for her to take . |
| 3 | It 'll involve us developing visiting schemes , under eight services , helping families in different ways , improving services for disabled children , developing family centres , and a new specific — this 'll might amuse you this — a new specific responsibility for us to inspect and register the care practices of private schools in the County , and Oxfordshire has got the biggest number of those in the whole country . |
| 4 | It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay . |
| 5 | The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams , have made an emotional plea for him to come home . |
| 6 | It remains then to show that this is the right course for us to take . |
| 7 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 8 | The Gulf War , the re-alignment of Eastern Europe , the breakup of the USSR , the Middle East and not to mention Africa and South America given little support for anyone to disagree with SwissRe 's view . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the SAC said : ‘ It is normal practice for us to monitor our revenue clients on a regular basis and in particular to study their proposals under their four-year plan . |
| 10 | And perhaps the light from those ears of corn which are in just the right condition for her to lay her eggs , fluoresce in a particular manner , recognizing which from her own inward pre-patterned instincts , she homes in and deposits her eggs . |
| 11 | US prosecutors and lawyers for Imelda Marcos , widow of the late Philippines president , have discussed a possible deal for her to plead guilty and make a full disclosure in a racketeering case in exchange for a suspended sentence , Manila 's chief government lawyer said yesterday . |
| 12 | We have over £150 worth of fabulous underwear for you to win ! |
| 13 | We intend to place the money in our building fund and it is also a faith-building experience for us to see God blessing us in this way . |
| 14 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) : ‘ Provide a broader base for you to gain satisfaction until promotion becomes possible ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a heart-breaking decision for me to make , but I have been in the firing line of late with the suspensions and I have struggled with injuries all season , ’ said the Colchester manager . |
| 16 | ‘ This is supposed to be a business arrangement , not some opportunity for you to start delving into what makes me tick ! ’ |
| 17 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 18 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 19 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 20 | That 'll be another scam for her to get money ! |
| 21 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 22 | Another opportunity for them to do it again . |
| 23 | Oh we 've actually found a free seat for us to sit on . |
| 24 | ‘ And now , if you 'll excuse me , I 'm sure there must be some work for me to do . |
| 25 | Right there 'll be some work for you to do . |
| 26 | ‘ Let's find a good-looking girl for you to flirt with … |
| 27 | You do n't just say , ‘ Give me a hand in this campaign for everyone to put out their dustbins ’ You try to get the mayor to do it , or Princess Diana to do it , or a hundred-year-old lady , in the district or Rumanian orphans . |
| 28 | Such a perspective does not require a universal pragmatics for it to proceed with an analysis of the form of discourse as ideology . |
| 29 | Another point for them to remember is not to speak directly at the microphone but to aim instead just over the top of it ; this is to reduce the pick-up of breath noises and the distortion of plosive consonants . |
| 30 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |