Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 2 | But the Phnom Penh government also has its reasons for favouring instability . |
| 3 | This necessity of the pace of social and industrial change has its implications for teaching method : the student must increasingly develop and practise the skills of enquiry and discovery , in order to experience the confidence and pleasure of it and to be able to make fullest use of " recurrent education " possibilities and requirements in later life . |
| 4 | In this poem he thanks his benefactor for obtaining his release after ‘ Well nigh sev'n years ’ of captivity : |
| 5 | He uses his talent for accenting throwaway lines and for pathos , as well as his sense of comedy , especially in the drunken farewell when he drowns a beautiful old Rolls-Royce in the Baron 's swimming pool . ’ |
| 6 | Malta , as the coach observed , are light years ahead of San Marino and the closeness of their results against Portugal and Italy ( both won by the odd goal ) , confirms their aptitude for denying space to the opposition . |
| 7 | Blows your excuse for going down the job centre . |
| 8 | No one with any wisdom or common sense still takes their job for granted . |
| 9 | Is a defendant who fails even to consider that a woman might not be consenting still to be acquitted if he takes her consent for granted ? |
| 10 | ICI also recognises its responsibilities for helping in community education . |
| 11 | So this poet attacks his Friend for hoarding his beauty until it will be ‘ self-kill 'd ’ ( 6.4 ) . |
| 12 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 13 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 14 | Having been disinherited by his father he finds employment at a fashionable hairdresser 's which gives him materials for composing ‘ those brilliant efforts of genius , his fashionable novels ’ . |
| 15 | Polybius gives his reasons for reporting the figures : " so that it may appear from actual facts what a great power it was that Hannibal ventured to attack , and how mighty was that empire boldly confronting which he came so near his purpose as to bring great disasters on Rome " ( 2.24.1 ) . |
| 16 | Allan Fromme , a clinical psychologist and therapist , gives his reasons for believing that persistent , excessive punishment is a policy of defeatism : |
| 17 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 18 | When you have to take a job , even if it 's a job you can mildly stomach … the fact that you have no choice crushes your enthusiasm for doing the job . ’ |
| 19 | YOUR profile writer rebukes our politicians for neglecting the people 's wishes in the matter of hanging . |
| 20 | After we 've signed the visitors ' book , he reproaches my husband for picking up his bag : ‘ We have a bag-carrying service . ’ |
| 21 | Geoff Hamilton takes a close-up look at some mini-vegetables that are currently being developed by Horticulture Research International , whilst Pippa Greenwood continues her plans for planting a sloping garden ; |
| 22 | Your son resents his stepbrother for taking up your time , and is worried that you do n't love him any more . |
| 23 | ECHO LOGIC UNVEILS ITS TOOLS FOR CONVERTING MAC APPLICATIONS TO RUN ON POWERPC |
| 24 | Britain claims its target for reducing presently projected levels of carbon dioxide by 30 per cent by 2005 is " very demanding " . |