Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | May we search consistently for the best in other people . |
| 32 | substituting them back into ( 5.30 ) we get respectively for the one-year , two-year and three-year par value bonds , and . |
| 33 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 34 | So we pray particularly for the forthcoming election , that the man of your choosing may be elected , and that the government of that nation may seek justice , peace and righteousness . |
| 35 | We pray too for the homeless of our nation , and pray for a way out from the spiral of poverty and deprivation that confronts many today . |
| 36 | ‘ It shows the hypocrisy of our society that we work hard for the born handicapped … yet before their birth we are doing everything we can to seek them out and kill them . |
| 37 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 38 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 39 | They apologise both for the sory and distress caused . |
| 40 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 41 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 42 | The international challenge did not meet Martin Lester 's target in full , largely due to the fact that , wherever international representatives attend the major rallies , they do so for the very purpose of demonstrating their national speciality and no other . |
| 43 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 44 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 45 | The clanking camisoles and the chain mail adornments of the sixties are certainly less static than the table decorations of the thirties ; they exist surely for the same reason , to invite comment . |
| 46 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 47 | Suddenly she felt a glowing warmth deep inside ; he could never betray her , could never sell what they had together for the cheap thrill of recounting an old , sordid story . |
| 48 | Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar . |
| 49 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 50 | For the whole of the following week they waited daily for the soft , insistent question or the outraged cry that would begin to crack their flimsy structure . |
| 51 | Because all snail genes have an equal stake in every sperm and every egg , because they all participate in the same unpartisan meiosis , they work together for the common good , and therefore tend to make the snail body a coherent , purposeful vehicle . |
| 52 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 53 | Then it headed straight for the nearest suitable planet and effected a landing . |
| 54 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 55 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 56 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 57 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 58 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 59 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 60 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |