Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angela Carter studied medieval literature at the University as a mature student in the 1960s in the English Department , where she developed her taste for folk stories that underpinned such works as The Magic Toyshop , Nights at the Circus and The Company of Wolves . |
| 2 | His daughter and her fiance are left on stage , where they confirm their love for each other with a poetry that Eliot would have once found impossible to write : |
| 3 | Having divined the source of his miseries , the bewitched victim reports to the chief 's court , where he submits his accusation for verification by the chief 's own oracle . |
| 4 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 5 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 6 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 7 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 8 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 10 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
| 11 | It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity . |
| 12 | " But what happened to all that famous French liberte , egalite and fraternite that you fought your revolution for ? " asked Joseph in astonishment . |
| 13 | If you find a new diet in a magazine , or you decide to lose weight , the chances are that you pick your day for starting but make no special preparation plans . |
| 14 | ‘ I understand , ’ she responded coldly , ‘ a lot more than you give me credit for . |
| 15 | ‘ I always thought Rose was deeper than you gave her credit for , ’ she says . |
| 16 | Our meeting with the ACPO representative did not bring about any change in this position , and we had to admit that we shared their concern for road safety . |
| 17 | ‘ It is vital that we maintain our concentration for the entire match . |
| 18 | ‘ The public are quicker to shift opinion than we give them credit for . |
| 19 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 20 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |
| 21 | You conclude your article by suggesting to readers that they reserve their money for those with integrity and courage , such as Amnesty International … and the Heavenly Records EP ! ! ? ? |
| 22 | And Goethe — although he retained his admiration for the Greeks , and not least for the three tragedians , right up to his death in 1832 — mostly looked in other directions for his inspiration after the unfinished drama Pandora of 1810 . |
| 23 | During his speech he made no mention of Kuwait , although he repeated his call for a ceasefire , to be followed by US-Iraqi talks and inter-Arab dialogue . |
| 24 | Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines . |
| 25 | The criminal justice system , of course , now recognises this even more than it recognises our need for autonomy : monetary penalties are by far the most common form of penalty that it uses in its attempt to control crime . |
| 26 | It turned out that he shared my liking for the more conventional kind of organ . |
| 27 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 28 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 29 | Even though the hon. Gentleman occasionally speaks with forked tongue — and , as we shall see later , his views are not shared by his Front-Bench colleague , the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) — I welcome the fact that he proclaims his support for the TECs . |
| 30 | It was there that he developed his passion for acting , joining a prisoners ' drama group . |