Example sentences of "for [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989-90 the total amount of grant was £33.8 million , in 1990-91 it was £31.2 million and for 1991-92 it is £29.7 million . |
| 2 | He then goes on to list and classify a lengthy and diverse list : visions , dreams , voices , discussions , parables , speeches , proverbs , rituals , laws , songs , drama , poetry , letters , ciphers , anthologies , history , records and stories , and for each he gives chapter and verse . |
| 3 | Starting with three 1½ × ¼in strips of ash for each I intended to steam the strips , clamp to the forms for a few days , and then glue and reclamp . |
| 4 | This is no small matter , especially as the civil nuclear issue is coming to the centre of the political stage again , summed up in the slogan — for sloganised it has become — ‘ Sizewell B ’ . |
| 5 | I should say it 's convenient for neither I should imagine . |
| 6 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 7 | ( Confidingly ) Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the Rape of the Sabine Women — or rather woman , or rather Alfred — ( Over his shoulder ) Get your skirt on , Alfred — ( The BOY starts struggling into a female robe. ) … and for eight you can participate . |
| 8 | I 've already told him I 'm gon na get my arse kicked cos I have n't for eight you see . |
| 9 | For Labour they want more people employed and that 's to the detriment of taxes and inflation . |
| 10 | For Labour it might be Lady Antonia Pinter singing the poems of Roger McGough while accompanied by Larry Adler on the harmonica . |
| 11 | For that they were detained and tortured for four months in 1981 . |
| 12 | It is what he stands for that they do n't like . |
| 13 | No one saw Charles and Dimity arrive , and for that they were grateful . |
| 14 | She was very kind to the patients , and for that they would gladly have forgiven her personal idiosyncrasies , if they noticed them , which was unlikely . |
| 15 | For that they would scratch and kill . " |
| 16 | Johnson , who should have known better , believed Boswell right in assuming such folk unhappy , ‘ for that they had not enough to keep their minds in motion ’ . |
| 17 | But people do n't but th they do n't go for that they go for that because they do n't like the taste of chlorine . |
| 18 | For that they get access to anything from food to car tyres . |
| 19 | But they would soon tell that they would have their before they would go to bed and thanks er very much when getting the bed and you could er vouch for that they would never . |
| 20 | The excess to which some have pointed may well disclose the absence of something crucial , but for that we must defer judgment . |
| 21 | He wanted to do a Beatle medley and for that we made four cut-out caricatures of The Beatles in hardboard and painted them and then fitted them on frames and easels so that they could be stood up and moved around . |
| 22 | For that we would be eternally grateful . |
| 23 | For that we can thank a succulent script , meaty characterisations and four central performances that will leave you begging for more . |
| 24 | For that we have to thank other characteristics which Lineker shares with Gower . |
| 25 | FOR THAT WE MUST THANK HIS DIET . |
| 26 | ‘ At least Farrah is safe and well and for that we are grateful . |
| 27 | For that we need a key and we do n't know where the key is . ’ |
| 28 | For that we must rely more on the intentions and attitudes of potential parents , and the importance of children for parents , and cast our ideas rather wider , beyond economic trends and family finance . |
| 29 | For that we do n't need to give Civic Forum an ideological colour or pattern . |
| 30 | I mean , I remember mother saying that , you see mother had never seen the sea till she joined the Guild and they decided to save for an outing , and then the next thing I can remember was that we used to have these stamps every week and I think it come to two and ninepence erm and for that we went to Rhyl . |