Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is they , too , who lend him/her money for the journey and help him/her look for a job in the urban environment . |
| 2 | I groped around with my foot for the table-leg and pressed down hard until the spasm gradually subsided . |
| 3 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
| 4 | I have also disclosed my intention for the effect that the book will have . |
| 5 | My thanks for the hospitality and friendliness accorded to myself and my comrades by all concerned . |
| 6 | TO ALL Telecom engineers , please accept my thanks for the effort and care you put into getting our phones back in order . |
| 7 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |
| 8 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 9 | I 'd just like to thank the fellow colleagues of my team for the effort and I regard er a very worthwhile and creditable performance . |
| 10 | I am deeply grateful to the Technique and to my teacher for the patience that he had . |
| 11 | Again , my apologies for the delay and for the negative response . |
| 12 | Will the Minister commend Lagan college in my constituency for the progress that it has made in the past 10 years ? |
| 13 | If not then I 'll plead to my wife for the car & I 'll be able to offer other people a lift there ( but I 'll be coming back on Sunday ) . |
| 14 | I 'd rather not have to use one of my people for the sacrifice unless it is absolutely necessary . ’ |
| 15 | I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me . |
| 16 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 17 | The Anglican clergy , on the other hand , tended to rally behind the Tories , often marching to the polls en masse to give their support for the Church and Queen candidates . |
| 18 | The majority of the newspapers had become woefully compromised in their support for the government and good investigative journalism was one of the casualties . |
| 19 | The National Executive wrote to the four signatories and supporters who were most closely identified with the Petition campaign , Bevan , Strauss , Cdr Young , and W. Bruce , asking them to discontinue their support for the campaign or face expulsion from the Party . |
| 20 | On Feb. 19 an estimated 5,000-8,000 miners from the Jiul Valley area arrived in Bucharest to show their support for the NSF and promised Iliescu that they would get rid of the " hooligans " . |
| 21 | At the rally at Halkebi Turkish Community Centre , trade union officials from the Taylor 's and Garment Workers Union and Transport and General Workers Union and MPs Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn stated their support for the workers and protested the home office policy . |
| 22 | Mrs Shephard said some conservationists saw a contradiction between MAFF 's support for farming and its policies for the environment and some farmers were suspicious of the emphasis placed on green issues . |
| 23 | She wandered through to the kitchen to get her bag , and checked through her notes for the name and address of the Rose Bowl 's usual wholesaler . |
| 24 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report on Feb. 21 claimed that Congress ( I ) had threatened to withdraw its support for the government unless the five ministers were removed . |
| 25 | After the election the new government in November 1990 again expressed its support for the ban and confirmed that it remained in place . |
| 26 | The government , claiming that granting the pilots ' wage demand would set off a wage explosion and damage the economy , expressed its support for the airlines and took unprecedented steps to break the strike . |
| 27 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 28 | Through its support for the war and its positive participation in the construction of the war economy the Labour movement helped to create a fund of popular support for socialist objectives . |
| 29 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 30 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |