Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad blames my mum for the way things turned out for me . |
| 2 | My brother holds our castle for Matilda and sent me here to serve her . |
| 3 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 4 | Her glance searched his face for some clue as to what he meant , and when he failed to enlighten her she asked , ‘ This relationship , you mean ? ’ |
| 5 | The group achieved its highest scores on the qualities crucial for top executives : they relish control and are fiercely independent ; they analyse people , but are caring ; they are relaxed , extrovert and confident , and their optimism matches their need for action . |
| 6 | Hoylake withdraws action : Hoylake has withdrawn its court action against the insurance commissioners in nine US states , challenging their right to review its bid for BAT Industries . |
| 7 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 8 | The wife is the means through which a man transmits his lineage to his son ; she is often compared to a field in which her husband sows his seed for the continuation of his lineage . |
| 9 | In one such festival , her husband shows his love for her by presenting her with a new dress and himself attending to her hairdo and make up . |
| 10 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 11 | One had the feeling that she was happy enough just to let her racket do her talking for her … |
| 12 | Anne listened quietly , her expression revealing her sympathy for Robyn . |
| 13 | After the Cabinet reshuffle in July 1989 and her press office 's rubbishing of the significance of the title deputy prime minister for Geoffrey Howe , Conservative back-benchers went out of their way to show their support for Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons . |
| 14 | If Iran was provoked , why did it also go so publicly out of its way to stress its respect for Iraq 's territorial integrity ? |
| 15 | In fact she went out of her way to show her support for the people who had contributed to it . |
| 16 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer ( 1985 , p.201 ) , in his ‘ warts-and-all ’ study of Mozart , suggests that music offers similar opportunities : ‘ Why else should we need music but for its ability to satisfy our longing for emotional experience , without our having to undergo the deep tumult at its root ’ . |
| 17 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 18 | ‘ She told me her brother held his castle for the Empress , that he had sent her to Gloucester , that she was estranged from him . ’ |
| 19 | And as her pregnancy advances her need for insulin will gradually increase . |
| 20 | He lay there dead , his blood soaking my shoulder for half an hour . |
| 21 | Jezrael leaped at the man in a balletic kick , somersaulting as the back of his neck snagged her foot for a second . |
| 22 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 23 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
| 24 | Sitting back and taking it all in is another former hip hop dancer , Moet Lo , who lost his Wall Street messenger job when his firm discovered his penchant for the five-finger discount at Polo stores . |
| 25 | They were sure only of one thing : that somehow his life explained his stand for an independent Scotland . |
| 26 | His resolution to punish his wife for letting a stranger in at such a time would have to wait . |
| 27 | He wished the quality of his care expressed his love for her more obviously — less abrasively . |
| 28 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |
| 29 | Let's say your friend misinterpreted your motive for acting as you did . |
| 30 | Perhaps your father shared my taste for Beethoven . ’ |