Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [be] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | Establishing rapport is the process of getting on the right wavelength with someone — usually , but not inevitably , with someone you are meeting for the first time . |
| 3 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 4 | Erm elsewhere in my statement I have indicated an appropriate provision of employment land which is related to the population size which we are suggesting for the new settlement . |
| 5 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 6 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 7 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 8 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 9 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 10 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 11 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |
| 12 | Do not grieve the Holy Spirit with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption . |
| 13 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 14 | I told them you were made for the part . ’ |
| 15 | I would ask Mr Williamson , I presume you you 're leading for the County Council today to er take us through I five and I twelve . |
| 16 | ‘ She 'll have told you we were coming for the boat . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Secondly , a covenant simply to pay a sum of money , whether by way of insurance premium , compensation or damages , is a covenant capable of touching and concerning the land provided that the existence of the covenant , and the right to payment thereunder , affects the value of the land in whomsoever it is vested for the time being … |
| 19 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 20 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 21 | a little portion of what I 'm paying for the heel . |
| 22 | I first started to write at school and I 'd charge a few pence for each story — you should have seen what I was writing for the girls . |
| 23 | I ca n't recall what I was paid for the film . |
| 24 | She 'll understand your anger and stop what she 's doing for the time being , but that wo n't stop her doing it again when you ca n't see . |
| 25 | Here , do you know what she 's doing for the Body Shop now ? |
| 26 | Tint the undercoat with whatever you are using for the final colour and you will get a good , even finish . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , because we know exactly what we 're paying for the next 3 years ’ |
| 28 | And just check out what they 're making for the weekend bash : a 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , a 16ft wide mini ramp [ 4ft tall ] , tons of street stuff with fun boxes , handrails and suchlike , and also a massive vert ramp which will be 32ft wide , 10ft transitions and 1 ½ foot of vert , and what 's more this will be bowled out at one end like Vision 's indoor ramp . |
| 29 | Choose your coach with care ; be sure that they know what they are doing for the theatre and actor of today . |
| 30 | I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club . |