Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] and for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She hoped that she had n't made an enemy out of Joe Lucas ; she knew that what he 'd done , he 'd done for her and for the memory of Christine . |
2 | Oats and potatoes are grown for themselves and for a few cattle . |
3 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
4 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
5 | Apart from the people speaking for you and for the Council , and the Appeal Committee members themselves , only a limited number of people may be at a hearing . |
6 | She never knew them , she pined for them and for the better life they might have had together . |
7 | To know how to live for oneself and for the present when a choice involving sacrifice for others or the future does not arise will be indispensable to learning to make such choices in sufficient awareness . |