Example sentences of "for [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them the Imperial Sun shines on undiminished ! |
| 2 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |
| 3 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 4 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 5 | For them the role of victim of white gangs is over . |
| 6 | For them the MacSharry treatment is grim : slashed prices , grants that taper away with increasing size of farm , and good land forced to lie fallow . |
| 7 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 8 | For them the choice has been an entry level model pared to the bone , the used car lot or an east European ‘ cheapie ’ . |
| 9 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 10 | Not for them the worries of an investigative Panorama or Insight team of reporters . |
| 11 | But many managers do not have such a background ; for them the need to think quantitatively is sometimes alien , or at least a strain . |
| 12 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 13 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
| 14 | For them the seemingly dead animal is far less enticing . |
| 15 | For them the satisfactions of life were probably limited to the pleasures of eating , the gratification of the sexual urge and the uplift experienced in the physical triumph over another creature . |
| 16 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 17 | For them the comparison must be immediate . |
| 18 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 19 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 20 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 21 | For them the extent of the new prosperity may be doubted , although their relationships with their masters had come to be based on the basis of cash rather than service . |
| 22 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 23 | Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens , television and sleeping accommodation . |
| 24 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 25 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 26 | For them the khedda is called for . |
| 27 | For them the twin notions of ‘ education ’ and ‘ schooling ’ , which are still locked together in everyday parlance , are beginning to tear apart , and there is an uncomfortable sense that the latter may no longer be the best vehicle for the delivery of the former . |
| 28 | For them the vital issue of racial identity confusion does not exist . |
| 29 | For them the death in our family is the result of their successful and fully justified vengeance-magic in return for an earlier killing in their family . |
| 30 | Classical Greece is for them the ‘ prime historical example of the transition to a really literate society ’ without the interference of ‘ other cultural features imported from the loan country along with the writing system . |