Example sentences of "[verb] for the [noun sg] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution . |
| 2 | Other members of the medical profession became interested in the winter climate , and the island began to be recommended for the treatment of and convalescence from a whole range of ailments from anaemia to gout . |
| 3 | He sprang up at once and made for the door as if he 'd been propositioned by a dirty old man in a public convenience . |
| 4 | Indeed , Frank Field claims that the Child Poverty Action Group , which since its foundation in 1965 has consistently and somewhat single-mindedly campaigned for the extension of and increases in family allowance , was positively hindered by the latent opposition of women to the scheme ( Field , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | Feldstein the dissident , Chernayev the thief , Poshekhonov the fraud , all reached for the Englishman as if to draw out some spark of friendship . |
| 6 | Young girls even screamed and squealed for the politician as if he was their favourite teen rock idol . |
| 7 | The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver . |