Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also caught a number of covert glances at himself : was that what a few moment 's conversation with a presidential aide did for you in this town ? |
| 2 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 3 | The impetuous young man became infatuated with the dancer Barberoni , was summoned home from Europe , and a ‘ safe ’ marriage negotiated for him in 1749 to his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Campbell , daughter of John , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | ‘ Preston , I was two hours waiting for you in that porch . |
| 5 | Acknowledgement of the fact of this fundamental need for a ‘ god ’ , and the need to provide for it in any social order , can be the vital factor in finding a way to ease the sufferings of the world . |
| 6 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 7 | There could be no more appropriate item with which to initiate such a project than the magnificent 12-part Motet In Memoriam Robert Carver which Ronald Stevenson composed for them in 1987–88 : a work which deliberately spans the centuries to invoke the spirit of Carver in new , late 20th-Century context . |
| 8 | The foundation is a complex of buildings which includes Son Abrines , the family home still occupied by Pilar , the artist 's widow , Son Boter , the old stone house which Miró employed as his graphics studio , coating its walls in charcoal sketches , the studio which Josep Luis Sert constructed for him in 1954–56 and where he worked until his death in 1983 , and the new exhibition centre of Sert 's pupil , Rafael Moneo , Dean of the Graduate Design School in Harvard . |
| 9 | At our next meeting Mr Client I shall not only be making recommendations but I will be explaining how each recommended product works for you in great detail . |
| 10 | Geoff Hurst 's maitre d ’ demeanour advertised that he was open for business — he 's the one who has been able to make his World Cup exploits play for him in recent years ; he 's semi-permanently on the road with an old-ones-are-the-best-ones floorshow and anecdotal package . |
| 11 | She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room . |
| 12 | The guy was taking on ten people at o he he had ten people working for him in one day . |
| 13 | ‘ We have 1,500 people working for us in this Opera House , and everybody is talking about the ghost . |
| 14 | I ask you dear friends to pray for me in this area for guidance , finance and I will seek his will in everything . ’ |
| 15 | He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships . |
| 16 | He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships . |
| 17 | The real argument is not how a doctor 's conduct can be characterized , but whether under the circumstances he has fulfilled his duty to the patient to care for him in good faith . |
| 18 | I mean , er the thing is if you 've got a name and you want to that 's the time to work for it in that little |