Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your employee normally works for you from Monday through to Friday . |
| 2 | The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre . |
| 3 | Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment . |
| 4 | It was commissioned from the sculptor by the sixth Duke of Bedford and , once transported from Rome , housed in the Temple of the Graces specially built for it at Woburn . |
| 5 | The national Labour defeat , of course , denies Mr Mandelson the government post widely predicted for him as a consequence of his guru status within his party ; the Hartlepool runner-up , radio and PR man Mr Graham Robb , put up the Conservative vote by a thousand but was still 8,782 adrift . |
| 6 | Lou went along with him for every show , with a place always reserved for her in the front row . |
| 7 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
| 8 | The facility still remains for them to be used should the government so choose . |
| 9 | Among those to achieve notoriety was US assistant secretary of state George McGhee ( the fact that he had been a Rhodes scholar seemingly counted for nothing on either side ) . |
| 10 | And did you read Bill Davis 's defence of the moneychangers in the temple , Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on the last supper ( ‘ my partner chose the water then asked for it to be changed to wine ’ ) , David Thomas 's theory that Cain was framed by a feminist group ? |
| 11 | Pip secretly arranges for him to be taken into partnership by Clarriker , a rising young merchant , and he prospers , working for the firm in the East and is eventually able to marry his sweetheart Clara Barley . |
| 12 | I know that there will be people just waiting for me to be injured and say ‘ I told you so ’ but I am confident that , this time , it 's not going to happen . ’ |
| 13 | While Smailovic in Sarajevo plays the Adagio specially written for him by Edinburgh-based composer Nigel Osborne , he will be joined by American cellist Evelyn Elsing at the Capitol in Washington DC , Florian Kitt at the Red Cross Depot in Vienna and music student Diana Isaacs in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | The first ever personalised beauty programme written for you by experts , with cosmetics specially selected for you from an exclusive new range . |
| 15 | This illustrates the line to be drawn between credit which people genuinely choose for themselves from a range of options , and credit which they use and go on using almost automatically — credit which is therefore not entirely subject to the healthy influence of open competition and free consumer choice . |
| 16 | The central objective was to establish the kinds of actions and organisations that people typically make for themselves in this kind of social and spatial environment . |
| 17 | But again the songs ( whose content Comrade Wong resolutely translated for us in stage-whispers throughout ) harped on the great achievements of Mao , Chou and Hua , the last of whom seems to be being built up into a great leader matching his predecessors in stature . |
| 18 | The opportunity then arose for me to be employed as a secretary to my husband — not an ideal working situation but it has been quite successful . |
| 19 | Zborowski supplied the charcoal , paints , canvas , and brushes ; he also hired the models ( Modigliani insisted that they must be paid three to five francs an hour ) and any accessories , although the painter rarely asked for anything but the human figure for his work . |
| 20 | According to Cara , who had accommodation already reserved for them in a hotel in Mariánské Láznë , they should reach their destination by about mid-afternoon . |
| 21 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |
| 22 | The European Cup really begins for us against Marseille . |
| 23 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 24 | erm stage perhaps go for something like that for another couple of years and then yes , I mean when they 're getting a bit bigger and they |
| 25 | Tony 's successful partnership with Steve Kember was a key reason for our 1969 promotion to Division One , and for our subsequent continued presence there , but Tony also played for us in a variety of positions , from attacking winger on his debut , to left-back . |