Example sentences of "for [pers pn] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an overall majority for them of 44 , which guaranteed a full term in office , with 339 Conservatives . |
| 2 | Shavante men in this ceremony act out the glorification of the essence of manhood , comprised for them of both the bellicose , destructive aspect of male power and its sexual/generative side ( ibid. : 266 ) . |
| 3 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
| 4 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |
| 5 | He told his audience at the French Academy of Political and Moral Sciences : ‘ One of the joys for me of being in France is that you have a particularly strong sense of the ultimate cost to the human spirit of unrelenting migration from the countryside to the big cities . ’ |
| 6 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , for me of course , ’ said Lydia , forced into the open . |
| 8 | Cos it also brings back memories for me of er Mayday celebrations . |
| 9 | ‘ Brother , if you will send it to me I will make lots of drawings for you of the Heike , and whatever you want … . |
| 10 | Smoking 's bad for you of course but I mean |
| 11 | He said they 've changed your units , and he said there 's an allocation a back allocation for you of forty baskets of tomatoes he said to me . |
| 12 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 13 | Now , you may think that er you and I are very different from a T four bacteria but personally , and I on can only speak for myself , I ca n't speak for you of course , but personally I 'm prepared to accept that basically I 'm really nothing more than a very very complicated and much bigger T four bacterial . |
| 14 | You 'd expect yeah y you 'd expect somebody to do that for you of course . |
| 15 | And Joan there 's a famous name for you of Belper and one more and it 's Terry of Leicester , prize for you . |
| 16 | The distinctive moods of the rich and various landscapes which crowded near to Stowey were becoming for Coleridge almost a reflex of his own moods and thoughts — the broad uplands of the Quantock Hills a counterpoint to the speculative power of a mind ‘ habituated to the vast ’ , the lowland villages an expression for him of the loving companionship of friends and family , the hidden dell , where the voice of nature sounded in the waterfall , a retreat by turns comforting and mysterious to serve his recurrent longing for escape . |
| 17 | When the King received it he asked the Ferrars to make a similar Concordance for him of the Books of Chronicles and Kings , so as to present them as a single narrative . |
| 18 | Henry Fox secured a secret service pension for him of £1,200 a year as compensation . |
| 19 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 20 | Section 17(10) defines children in need as follows : a child shall be taken to be in need if : ( a ) he is unlikely to achieve or maintain , or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining , a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him of services by a local authority under [ Part III of the Act ] ; ( b ) his health or development is likely to be significantly impaired , without the provision for him of such services ; or ( c ) he is disabled . |
| 21 | Section 17(10) defines children in need as follows : a child shall be taken to be in need if : ( a ) he is unlikely to achieve or maintain , or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining , a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him of services by a local authority under [ Part III of the Act ] ; ( b ) his health or development is likely to be significantly impaired , without the provision for him of such services ; or ( c ) he is disabled . |
| 22 | Except for him of course , but Cos I was getting a bit upset that my voice was going a bit Brummie . |
| 23 | The pictures Mark had created for her of the Nuremberg trials figured in her dreams and so did the bomb sites of war-torn London . |
| 24 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 25 | No market for it of course , but what the Hell ? |
| 26 | Rather than reveal qualitative differences among the banks and draw the public 's attention to the bad-debt mess ( not to mention the responsibility for it of the finance ministry , which regulates banks ) , officials are doing everything they can to help banks sweep their problems under the carpet . |
| 27 | Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) . |
| 28 | Hitachi Ltd has entered the X Window System terminal market with launch of the HT-3451-G11 , based on a 20MHz Motorola Inc 88100 RISC , claiming performance for it of 70,000 Xstones . |
| 29 | The trumpet is capable of considerable agility , but it is as well not to write rapid passages for it of any great length . |
| 30 | And and I had to pay for it of course . |