Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 2 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 3 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 4 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 5 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 6 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 7 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 8 | In principle the Central Authority could also delegate some of the functions reserved for it in the Electricity Act . |
| 9 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |
| 10 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 11 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 12 | They remain on display today in the Crown Room of the Castle , the very room built for them in the reign of James VI . |
| 13 | They enjoyed the special places reserved for them in the synagogues which were in full view of the congregation . |
| 14 | The Labour Party , thus , had given notice that it would not be prepared to accept a Leader chosen for it by the Monarch . |
| 15 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 16 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 17 | To symbolise her new life , her new role defined for her by the male rule-makers of society , a girl may even be given a new name on marriage . |
| 18 | The contrast between British Socialism , as then exemplified by trade unionism , and LEGA , could hardly be sharper ; the first , insistent on its traditional and conservative role , the role dispensed for it in the Victorian era by evolving Capitalism — to purvey labour to employing capital ; the second , looking towards a synthesis to accommodate and resolve the opposed interests contained in that dispensation , looking towards ‘ the third way ’ . |
| 19 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 20 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 21 | On the landing , looking out over the High Street , Aziz , wearing new brown overalls bought for him by the headmaster , seemed to be waving to his friend . |
| 22 | Make a table , ranking the prey species ( a ) in their order of abundance and ( b ) in order of the preference shown for them by the dog-whelks . |
| 23 | Today a team of friends played for him against the Brize Norton Club , before the match he walked the boundary with the great grandson of a former team mate . |
| 24 | Why not rescue them from the hell hole created for them by the Government ? |
| 25 | He was compensated with a pension secured for him by the new lord treasurer , Sir Thomas Osborne ( later Earl of Danby , q.v . ) . |
| 26 | For that reason , he has omitted his more fragile or delicate works in favour of robustness , playing with various permutations in a 1:20 model built for him by the Richard Rogers Partnership . |
| 27 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 28 | A teacher has only to say : " Now which of you girls did — " and my spots merge for a time into the scarlet background provided for them by the rest of my face . |
| 29 | Inevitably the analysis is relatively crude since it is difficult to gather data about the financial circumstances of dementia sufferers or about the total amount of care provided for them in the community . |
| 30 | An old lady descends from the black branches of the fire escape every morning and wearily gathers it all up and clambers home with it in paper bags : the food left for her by the birds . |