Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] sake [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Jeff 's sake I 'll agree to help you . ’ |
| 2 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
| 3 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 4 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 5 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
| 6 | After a restless few hours ' sleep , Fabia awakened to daylight and the concrete knowledge that for her sister 's sake she could not accept defeat on that interview issue . |
| 7 | He knew instinctively that this was no casual conversation and that for Cora-Beth 's sake he must be honest . |
| 8 | There was nothing Claudia would have liked more than for Dana to put distance between herself and Roman , but for Berenice 's sake she must n't be allowed to divert Garry 's attention away from his wife . |
| 9 | For safety 's sake it is always best to also enclose the fields in quotation marks as this gets round the problem of commas both in text fields and as thousands separators in numbers . |
| 10 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 11 | For god 's sake he 's he 's played that |
| 12 | I really fancy Peter like flipping god 's sake I mean I really do . |
| 13 | And I went berserk about two nights later and said for god 's sake you 're driving me bonkers , go away and sleep on the sofa . |
| 14 | And it was telling you you know say they were , for argument 's sake they was buying this house that was sort of up north and that . |
| 15 | Never late Jo is , half-past eight sharp like a bloody train steaming up and come on Maggie for Christ 's sake they close the nursery doors at nine you should know that by now . |
| 16 | I wanted to bring ye both in there , but Shamus says , for Christ 's sake they 're me own brother and his wife . |
| 17 | I know it will be expensive , but for Christ 's sake we 're dealing with a maniac . ’ |
| 18 | Well for Christ 's sake you have n't even done a week yet . |
| 19 | For Kirsty 's sake she had to put on a bright face . |
| 20 | There was no hint of compassion or understanding in those beautiful blue eyes , no hint that he would even consider an appeal , but for Grantham and Marsh 's sake she had to make one . |
| 21 | This was for economy 's sake you see , you could n't afford to buy shoes like people buy them now and just throw them away . |
| 22 | She could n't take their mother 's place , of course , but for Liz 's sake she must try to do everything she possibly could for the little girls . |
| 23 | to five p.m. but put it on tape for God 's sake we ca n't stand this you know . |
| 24 | I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday ! |
| 25 | After I 've heard their conversation for God 's sake you know , have a bit of heart ! |
| 26 | For God 's sake you know what they 're like in the village . |
| 27 | He did n't want them either , but he felt that for Timmy 's sake she should take what was on offer . |
| 28 | For modesty 's sake she got out of her clothes and into her night clothes , and , taking her black dress with her , she left her room , crossed the sitting-room , and hung her dress in the spacious wardrobes in the lobby . |
| 29 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 30 | An intellectual amusement resides in the interplay between what for simplicity 's sake we can represent as just two contrasting ranges of marked and unmarked language — although arse is undoubtedly less marked than fuck . |