Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never employed a girl before or since and now it seemed to Lyn that Dadda had hand-picked her for Stephen without the knowledge of either of them . |
| 2 | Lewis was tired , and Waqar off-glided him for two and straight-drove him to the pavilion boundary . |
| 3 | Gedge fixed it for his parents to watch the show from the wings . |
| 4 | NORTHERN Electric fixed it for cerebral palsy sufferer Glen McQuilling to take a flight in its overhead-line patrol helicopter . |
| 5 | in the way of , but she 's just nervous it for some reason . |
| 6 | Well because the labour in say this country is over productive , this has an awful lot of categories attached to each unit of labour , that 's why labour is very productive , is that you for each unit of labour employed there might be ten units of capital , I E there are chemicals etcetera , the reason why erm this this pressure on the land in say Africa , Africa , even though the density of population was much less and that there 's virtually no capital there , right , so in order to produce the food , you know the labour has to till the soil by hand and spread the seed by hand |
| 7 | Pulling out a small pen torch he illuminated Chrissie 's small car , its green paintwork dulled with dust and the fact that she had n't cleaned or waxed it for months . |
| 8 | ‘ Yours , all yours for the askin' , ’ replied Aunt Clarabel . |
| 9 | The challenge and excitement of doing a professional job in an elite organisation , the chance to travel , and access to unrivalled sporting and leisure pursuits are all yours for the taking . |
| 10 | Well we could a continued it for erm , well I du n no , but erm it was getting a bit out of hand with the picket line really , cos there was a lot of these youngsters who were n't prepared to do these picket line . |
| 11 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 12 | So if you take a hundred gallons on a day meter , you 're charged for a hundred gallons of water going out as sewage , er the Anglia rate is is is double ours for sewage . |
| 13 | Education , except for the sons of lords , was once directed at fitting a man for a job and , cynics would add , unfitting him for life . |
| 14 | It 's whether , you know , what we 've got to look at really is what , what , basis we can use that fifteen thou for . |
| 15 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 16 | They thought their money was safe , but it 's alleged that How used it for risky property deals which led to him losing everything . |
| 17 | Made them ink-exercise it for the Thursday and when I got in the results I was tearing my hair . |
| 18 | , Was that it for Bernard or is there anything else ? |
| 19 | Is that it for see there 's someone 's milk chocolate pudding , there 's a three plain top one and one with milk , eh . |
| 20 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 21 | His brief relationship with a page three girl Julie Desmond hit the skids when the press revealed that the bold Frank was two-timing her for another model , Anita Blue . |
| 22 | undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
| 23 | The many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
| 24 | It was a shame , too , that , because she had unstrapped it for the evening , her shoulder was already aching . |
| 25 | What was I doing admiring you for being so well-behaved , sitting there for hours content to have your arm round me ? |
| 26 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 27 | What happens next depends on the particular model : you may find that the machine goes automatically into record mode on switch-on , or you may have to press an additional button to ready it for recording . |