Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 2 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 3 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 4 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 5 | Such stories , in the words of Raymond Chandler , one of their great exponents , " gave murder back to the kind of people who commit it for reasons , not just to provide a corpse . " |
| 6 | I 'm bound to say that I meet a lot of people who praise me for speaking up , but do n't speak up themselves . |
| 7 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
| 8 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown slammed the ‘ arrogant complacency ’ of Ministers who did nothing for homeowners , the unemployed or small businesses . |
| 9 | ‘ There is every reason to remember George Bush 's achievements and the debt of gratitude we owe him for his leadership . |
| 10 | Kenneth Jackson 's crooning struck a wrong note with police who arrested him for allegedly disturbing the peace . |
| 11 | It performs weddings and baptisms , funerals and services for people who find nothing for them in separate dominations or who ca n't get to church . |
| 12 | In July we asked you for your original ideas on alternative uses for our free filter matting — and offered a prize of a ‘ lifetime 's supply ’ of Crystal Clear airline . |
| 13 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 14 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |
| 15 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 16 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 17 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 18 | In fact she did everything for me . |
| 19 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 20 | Entirely without authority he sold it for £75 to Harper , a garage proprietor who was unaware that Searle was not the owner . |
| 21 | Almighty God our heavenly father who made marriage to be a source of blessing to mankind we thank you for the joys of family life pour out of us your holy spirit that we may truly love and serve you . |
| 22 | He swooped on Preminger who rebuked him for being drunk , raging , ‘ You ver drunk last night and you are drunk now . ’ |
| 23 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
| 24 | Moreover , if shipper A entrusted his goods to faithless agent B who shipped the goods , obtained an ‘ order ’ bill of lading and endorsed it to C who acquired it for value and in good faith , A could not replevy the entrusted goods from C. A bank then , could be assured that it would become an ‘ absolute purchaser of goods upon deposit with it of [ a ] draft and bill of lading … [ and would acquire ] absolute title to property , unless it took with notice of some infirmity . ’ |
| 25 | She had always pitied Kathleen and never liked Cormac , who had not tried to protect his sister , but now as she lay awake at night she saw him for what he was : a pitiable victim of his mother 's obsession . |
| 26 | Wessels launched an immediate counter-attack when he entered in the day 's second over , mostly with pulls and cuts , and counted eight fours and a top-edged pull for six off Ambrose who removed him for 59 to a sharp low catch at point 35 minutes after lunch . |
| 27 | By chance he landed me for a swim at Moutsa down there . |
| 28 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |