Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to make a few comments , as a mainly urban cyclist who also rides for recreation and covers about 9,000 miles a year . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which has n't said yet if it 's using NT , has Microsoft helping it support HP 's 4mm digital audio tape ( DAT ) drives for backup and archiving : Microsoft Corp will make it an icon on the NT screen . |
| 3 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 4 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 5 | An option also allows for topspin or slice to be added . |
| 6 | At Belgo you sit on plain wooden chairs with pickaxe handles for legs and eat stoemp ( it 's a bit like bubble 'n' squeak ) served by sardonic men in monk 's habits . |
| 7 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 8 | Travel agents in England have already sold package deals for holidays that include tickets for the international matches — five-day games in Cape Town ( February 8-13 ) and Johannesburg ( February 16-21 ) and a six-game series of one-day matches ( February 23 to March 7 ) . |
| 9 | Given the national publicity surrounding that school and the instability and chaos there , what procedure exists for schools that lose or have removed from them their grant-maintained status ? |
| 10 | The Booking Office opens for Counter and Telephone Bookings on Tuesday 15 October at both the Festival Booking Office in College Gardens and at the Grand Opera House Booking Office in Glengall Street . |
| 11 | Electric cars are now on the government 's list of 400 environmentally friendly products , meaning tax breaks for companies that use them . |
| 12 | He fishes for oysters and leaves them for her lunch . |
| 13 | The following terms appear as aims for art but do not get a mention as objectives : |
| 14 | They quickly learned how to use their snouts to lever edible roots from the ground , overturn grass tussocks for worms and locate resin ( pigs have a sweet tooth ) . |
| 15 | Burke falls for Sillas and loses interest in locating father which upsets Sage , he wanders off on his own and runs across young Romanian epileptic Elina ( Elina Lowensohn ) who bizarrely turns out to be pater 's juvenile mistress . |
| 16 | No valves should be fitted in the vent pipe leading to the cold water storage cistern , but it helps for maintenance if servicing valves are fitted in the hot water pipes . |
| 17 | As a consequence there is no one body which speaks for teachers or presents a considered and constructive view of education . |
| 18 | Apart from an element of prestige , Treuherz recognises it is the interest and satisfaction of the job that compensates for pay that seems modest compared to that of other professional people . |
| 19 | When he discovers that Mary helps people , collects for Biafra and has protested against the Vietnam War , he is not happy because she suddenly reminds him of his mother . |
| 20 | A corresponding cleanup program is supplied which scans for viruses and removes them , often by having to delete the infected program . |
| 21 | A corresponding clean-up program is supplied which scans for viruses and removes them , often by having to delete the infected program . |
| 22 | but he has more of a chance to use the resources he gains for goals that correspond to the policy values of his party . |
| 23 | A similar result was avoided in The Lisboa where the clause was so widely drawn as to suggest that even proceedings for execution of the award were prohibited ; as such an interpretation would lead to the clause being null and void by virtue of section 8 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1924 , the Court of Appeal adopted a more limited interpretation under which proceeds for execution or to obtain security , including security by means of a Mareva injunction , were allowed . |
| 24 | No I was actually getting at a certain person that works for Trident that does n't think it 's worth extra hassle for a hundred and eighty pounds more a year . |
| 25 | , who works for Decommissioning and Waste Management at Harwell , gave a try of one of his two FlexiFoil power kites and the next thing he knew ‘ he was being dragged across the field on his bottom ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He works for Spiderglass and asks for danger-money ! ’ |
| 27 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |