Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A white cow used to provide milk for everyone in the locality , but it was customary for only one pailful to he taken . |
| 2 | Public sector trade unions have been extraordinarily successful in gaining advantages for themselves in the pay hierarchy by exploiting their monopoly collective bargaining position . |
| 3 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 4 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 5 | He has organised concerts for them in the past . |
| 6 | We have already seen how Galileo argued , on theological grounds , for the differentiation of scientific and theological propositions , and how he created difficulties for himself in the process . |
| 7 | Then the dream suddenly changes to nightmare when you hear voices say that they wo n't be able to look after your health because you 're not really worth it : that the treatment you need is not cheap enough so you 'll have to do without : that they would love to provide care for you in the community , but the price is n't right . |
| 8 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 9 | They excavate homes for themselves in the skins of animals and burrow long winding tunnels within the thickness of a leaf . |
| 10 | Miss Macdonald , I thought , would probably know about Andrew Stavanger 's dentist — she might well have made appointments for him in the past . |
| 11 | Concern over the standard of living of servicemen was answered by Yeltsin , who detailed provisions for them in the Russian budget . |
| 12 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |
| 13 | Kinnock declared that " the Conservative supporting press has enabled the Tory party to win yet again when the Conservative party could not have secured victory for itself on the basis of its record , its programme or its character " . |
| 14 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 15 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 16 | The secretary entered with the coffee tray and made room for it on the desk . |
| 17 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 18 | If they are churchgoers , but unable to go out alone , it is usually possible to organise lifts for them in the cars of other church members to Sunday services as well as week-day activities . |
| 19 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 20 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 21 | As unemployment has risen , more and more women have been forced to invent work for themselves in the informal sector , in street sales or occasional domestic work . |
| 22 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 23 | I 've been up there buying things for him in the past when he was er operating the taxi and he had n't time to go himself . |
| 24 | The Catering Manager 's office next door to the Refectory in the Richmond Building is the hub of all action where secretary Gill O' Brien runs the daily order books and takes bookings for everything from the Vice-Chancellor 's lunches to conference buffets . |
| 25 | And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering ; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge . |
| 26 | She is not working here this week but should be fielding calls for us after the election . ’ |
| 27 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 28 | Every penny he was paying he was having grant for it from the government Aye . |
| 29 | And I used to have to sing hymns for them on the wards , they used to love that |
| 30 | The reasoning which follows is based on the opinion , already inseparable from what has been said , that appropriation is a neutral expression and does not convey the sense of taking property for oneself without the owner 's authority . |