Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 2 | Luke rolled her back on the bed , their mouths still hungrily joined together , and she could feel his hand search behind her for the zip of her dress . |
| 3 | He will carry disappointment with him for the rest of his political career and , indeed , to the end of his days . |
| 4 | I know we got a mention in it for the museum and that was , oh did you get your keepsake ? |
| 5 | Perhaps a crewman stumbles , it could be the gloop is n't hot enough , maybe there is n't enough pepper in it for the cook 's liking . |
| 6 | He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks . |
| 7 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 8 | In the meantime , thanks to him for the loan of this lovable and interesting guitar . |
| 9 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told the 2,400 troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 10 | At the Redoubt Mr Major told troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing . |
| 11 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 12 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 13 | It was now too much at home with her for the response to be triggered . |
| 14 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 15 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 16 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 17 | He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If he did , he was in an enviable position to play cat and mouse with her for the duration of their stay . |
| 20 | ‘ I was asked to do a promotional picture with him for the video launch , but I refused . |
| 21 | The syllabus for modern languages in the GCSE is very full ; but there is no place in it for the teaching of grammar . |
| 22 | It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us . |
| 23 | There was no salvation outside the church and no place within it for the deviant . |
| 24 | Private court patronage was not just a reserve of employment for members of a political interest , however , for there was danger in it for the patron . |
| 25 | Panyi island , where Sapan and Strawberry lived , had only enough room on it for the mosque . |
| 26 | You can bring notes with you for the talk but you should avoid reading them to your audience . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There is a resigned look from Ann and Tony , but John and I ( the more English pair ? ) take ice axes and haul a small berg ashore , beating lumps off it for the tea . |
| 29 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
| 30 | It is contained in the old aphorism ‘ the child is father to the man ’ , and expresses the belief that a child 's experiences in the early years will leave a mark on him for the rest of his life . |