Example sentences of "[verb] for [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 2 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 3 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 4 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 5 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 6 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 7 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 8 | Lord Burlington also employed the services of an architect named Campbell , who built for him a beautiful temple , based on the Temple of Romulus in Rome . |
| 9 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 10 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 11 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 12 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 13 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 14 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 15 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 16 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 17 | Herluin advanced upon the altar very slowly , as though these few paces , and the climbing of the three steps , must be utilized to the full for prayer , and passionate concentration on this single effort which would make or break for him a dear ambition . |
| 18 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 19 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 20 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 21 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 22 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
| 23 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 24 | ‘ It was difficult 'cos we 'd walk into our dressing room and there would be 30 cans waiting for us every single night , ’ confesses Ashley . |
| 25 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 26 | Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug . |
| 27 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 28 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
| 29 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 30 | It did not have for him the magnetic feel of the two letters which were folded into his pocket , but it represented the tease of curiosity . |