Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are all familiar with our loyal supporters , but what about those people on the fringes who may have given a donation or done something for Save The Children in the past , but never really followed it up and there are the people who are interested who think , it 's a charity I feel I ought to support . |
| 2 | Director Chris Pond said : ‘ People will be faced with difficult choices , such as whether to use water for baths , or save it for cooking or to water the flower pots . ’ |
| 3 | A letter to Dr. Watson from the Sir C.J. Liston Foulis Trust , dated 14th October 1991 states , ‘ Our clients have instructed us not to continue the lease either on short-time or long term basis and therefore the ground with the buildings there-on belongs to our clients outright and the residents of Juniper Green have no right to occupy it or use it for playing tennis or for any other purpose . ’ |
| 4 | Her first series on the Munros drew strong reactions from people who either loved her approach or criticised her for including ‘ flip ’ material . |
| 5 | She turned on Walter Ash and reviled him for allowing her to hope , and indeed , despite the final outcome , it was his dangerous encouragement of this scheme that prefaced her final disillusion with him . |
| 6 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 7 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 8 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 9 | Thus a better strategy to employ is one that teaches her to wait and rewards her for doing so . |
| 10 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 11 | She felt a sharp pang at the thought that he could n't possibly desire her , and scolded herself for feeling like that . |
| 12 | The servant also said Mick phoned Jerry on Monday and blasted her for discussing their marriage in public . |
| 13 | Around 400 leftwing priests , students and human rights activists staged a demonstration near Ms Aquino 's palace yesterday and condemned her for seeking US help to crush the coup attempt . |
| 14 | And hated himself for depending on it . |
| 15 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 16 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 17 | If you 're back in time , come round , ’ she suggested , and hated herself for grovelling . |
| 18 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 19 | Doubtless while our noble lords and masters stand back and applaud themselves for winning yet another battle . ’ |
| 20 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |
| 21 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 22 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 23 | And damn him for daring to pry into my affairs and for subtly mocking my singular state ! |
| 24 | I do n't handle stolen property , and damn you for suggesting I do ! |
| 25 | All prize giving afterwards in ‘ 93 ’ the new Vice-President of IBOA , Mr. Ken Doyle [ in his first function in his new capacity ] praised the efficiency and professionalism of the way and the IBOA League was run and thanked everybody for participating . |
| 26 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 27 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 28 | June welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her for sparing time once again to attend our training day ; also Rita Quick who had made the long journey south from Newcastle to assist with the training . |
| 29 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ we responded , and thanked her for taking time from her busy schedule to talk with us . |
| 30 | He said ‘ goodbye ’ to our neighbour and thanked her for 'everything ’ , and he squeezed her hand . |