Example sentences of "[pron] for the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 2 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 3 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 4 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 5 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 6 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 7 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 8 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 9 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 10 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 11 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 12 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 13 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 14 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 15 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 16 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 17 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 18 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 19 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 20 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 21 | However , having started back at the club it has become apparent that the club has no intention of coaching last season 's players to highlight weaknesses and prepare them for the higher level of rugby . |
| 22 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 23 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 24 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 25 | ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’ |
| 26 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 27 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 28 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 29 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 30 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |