Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 2 | He has organised concerts for them in the past . |
| 3 | Miss Macdonald , I thought , would probably know about Andrew Stavanger 's dentist — she might well have made appointments for him in the past . |
| 4 | Concern over the standard of living of servicemen was answered by Yeltsin , who detailed provisions for them in the Russian budget . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She is not working here this week but should be fielding calls for us after the election . ’ |
| 8 | And I used to have to sing hymns for them on the wards , they used to love that |
| 9 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 10 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 11 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 12 | A fervent follower of the tariff reform movement of Joseph Chamberlain [ q.v. ] , he began to write leaders and articles for the Morning Post under the editorship of his friend ( Sir ) Fabian Ware [ q.v. ] ; in 1906 he wrote articles for it during the course of a journey through Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and South Africa . |
| 13 | Downstream the child was playing with both dogs , throwing stones for them into the water . |