Example sentences of "[verb] for [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
2 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
3 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
4 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
5 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
6 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
7 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
8 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
9 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
10 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
11 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
12 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
13 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
14 | It did not have for him the magnetic feel of the two letters which were folded into his pocket , but it represented the tease of curiosity . |
15 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
16 | He would never set foot in Liberty 's , let alone Harrods — those haunts of the rich and the would-be rich represented for him the scornful laughter of the haves towards the have-nots . |
17 | In Lawrence 's Women in Love , completed in 1916 , Birkin contemplates the purchase of a ‘ clear , beautiful chair ’ which expresses for him the living thoughts of ‘ England , even Jane Austen 's England ’ , before these were destroyed by ‘ sordid and foul mechanicalness ’ . |
18 | Nineteenth-century liberalism was to inherit hostility to religious charity without substituting for it the planned charity of the state . |
19 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
20 | The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference , rather than the similarity , between her situation and mine . |