Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will carry disappointment with him for the rest of his political career and , indeed , to the end of his days . |
| 2 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 3 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 4 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |
| 5 | The next issue of Leads is scheduled for January 1990 and the copy deadline for you to submit information to us for the back page is 15 December 1989 . |
| 6 | And we should have sympathy with him for the sight of a strange dog — whether on a lead or not — can be enough to make sheep run and if pregnant they can miscarry . |
| 7 | It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being . |
| 8 | Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost . |
| 9 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 10 | Come over and I 'll wine you and dine you and make love with you for the rest of your life . |
| 11 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 12 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 13 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’ |
| 15 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 16 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 17 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 18 | The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy . |
| 19 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |