Sentence examples for station for something from inspiring English sources

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"The first contact of most people with the state is not the constitution, it is getting a gas connection or going to the police station for something trivial.

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Immediately after the start of the programme, Ayatollah Shahroudi publicly lamented at the police, in a public speech in Tehran, for dragging innocent young women to police stations for something, that according to judiciary's spokesman, was not even entirely a violation of the dress code law.

Like the Wizard of Oz, Frank Capra's fable of personal responsibility and smalltown capitalism was considered a flop - until 1973, when someone forgot to renew the copyright and the film escaped into the public domain, providing a lovely Christmas present for cash-strapped American TV stations looking for something to fill their holiday schedules.

Put a disco ball and a DJ station, and something for you, the host, to sit on.

He was forced to spend part of a night in a police station and later officially apologize for something he did not do.

Nowadays, as the annual festival of Matronalia becomes a celebration of modern motherhood's insatiable appetite for pop music, the allure of the petrol station forecourt is being shunned for something altogether more up-to-date.

Thus the remote was handed over, and I watched as the pot dealer's wife flicked from one station to the next, looking for something that might satisfy her.

The action takes place in a dystopian-Mosleyite version of abdication Britain, with some great locations and an eerily ruined Battersea power station for the battle scene – something to compare with Kubrick's use of Beckton gasworks for Full Metal Jacket.

It facilitates the exchange of books between people just like me, looking for a good home for the overflow of books on our shelves, and the troops stationed all over the world, looking for something good to read.

Creaser said: "AGL's own staff are on record saying the ideal lifespan for a power station is something like 20 to 30 years but they're planning to run Bayswater until it's 50 years old and Loy Yang until it's 60 years old".

In a statement on its website,  Triple M said: "Triple M can't let Boof take all the blame for something that happened on our station.

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