Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
2 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
3 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
4 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
5 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
6 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
7 | All Scotland 's impressive technique and tactical shrewdness went for nought in the 26th minute , though , when they lost a depressingly poor goal . |
8 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |