Example sentences of "[noun] for [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 2 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 3 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 4 | To a king about to embark on war , the support of wise counsels and mighty powers was indeed essential , and the men honoured in 1337 repaid the king 's generosity by loyal support for him in the forthcoming campaigns . |
| 5 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 6 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 9 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 10 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 13 | There is no reliable diagnostic test for it in the living animal . |
| 14 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 15 | Sorry , we can not find a place for you in the Christian ministry . ’ |
| 16 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 17 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 18 | There is no room for her in the geriatric ward either , or wo n't be , until Amy dies , which may not be long . |
| 19 | But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson 's ‘ objectism ’ , any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate , whose example makes him surpass himself . |
| 20 | THE ARMY WAS AGAIN TO PERFORM THE SAME SERVICE FOR HIM IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH EXCEPT THAT NEXT TIME IT WAS A GUIDED TOUR OF THE COURSES OF ACTION WHICH WERE NOT OPEN TO HIS GOVERNMENT AS THE GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISED BY THE ULSTER WORKERS ' COUNCIL MOVED TO A CLIMAX . |
| 21 | Mohammed has provided this service for us in the Toubkal massif over many years . |
| 22 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 23 | Wine production in Britain has always been possible , though the evidence for it in the Roman period is almost non-existent . |
| 24 | Concern over the standard of living of servicemen was answered by Yeltsin , who detailed provisions for them in the Russian budget . |
| 25 | Between takes he waited outside the main hall with a helper to wipe his glasses for him in the close summer heat . |
| 26 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 27 | I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal . |
| 28 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |
| 29 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 30 | The more in touch we are with our own life experience , the greater chance we will have of listening to God screaming his love for us in the ordinary events of our lives . |