Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 2 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |
| 3 | I often fear for you in many ways , quite unreasonably it may be . |
| 4 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 5 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 6 | ‘ Goes for it in that sort of way . |
| 7 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’ |
| 10 | As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships . |
| 11 | Looking for anyone from any background . |
| 12 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 13 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
| 14 | What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ? |
| 15 | Reputations count for nothing in this game . ’ |
| 16 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 17 | let's assume that Mr is right in the suggestion he put to you about the building on the left , that it 's a golf course and we can see for ourselves without any evidence there 's a man fishing on the lake at the bottom there , were you trying to suggest that as part of the deal at a lake would be provided or a golf club ? |
| 18 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 19 | Always remember to keep the Lord first and He will provide for you in any circumstance . |
| 20 | The outer layer — what we look like — can work for us in another way too . |
| 21 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 22 | ‘ But he 'd never think to look for me in such company . ’ |
| 23 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 24 | ‘ Preston , I was two hours waiting for you in that porch . |
| 25 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 26 | Do you think you pay for it without any money Grace ? |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 29 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 30 | Corden said : ‘ I must admit I feel for them after that display . ’ |