Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how my heart aches for the baby son of Sarah Monelle , the young mum killed when a speeding car mounted the pavement , again in freezing fog , and ploughed into her and three of her pals . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 3 | Nathaniel Houlton , a widower living in Bristol , itemized the details of his coffin in a will drafted on 26 May 1767 : ‘ First , It is my Will and Desire ( if it can be done without being Offensive ) to have my Body kept for the space of One Week at the Least after my Demise , before my Coffin ( which I direct shall have a Double or false Lid , as my late Wife 's had ) , be closed up ; … |
| 4 | I had had my head shaved for the sake of hygiene the day before I left England . |
| 5 | I 'm the one who 's sacrificed my life paying for the house and its repairs and its decoration , and all the rest of it … . ’ |
| 6 | My hand groped for the light in terror as I wondered what this object could be . |
| 7 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 8 | ‘ My son works for the housing dept around here . |
| 9 | My brother works for the Department of Health and he can always arrange to get away if he knows the date far enough in advance . ’ |
| 10 | She feels the worst part of being unemployed is her inability to plan for the future . |
| 11 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 12 | Suddenly her heart ached for the sight of her native country , for the sounds and scents and the voices of her own people . |
| 13 | Some are the head of the family with husband and children dependent on their salary some are single parents and some rely on their income to provide for the shortfall in their partner 's earnings . |
| 14 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 15 | As she grows up she is able to bring up her child and form other relationships , but the split has occurred and the damaged child within her mind waits for the chance of retribution . |
| 16 | Ann Thwaite , in her biography Waiting for the Party , suggests the relevance to The Lost Prince of a certain incident in October 1913 . |
| 17 | Nineteen companies have indicated their intention to bid for the contract to computerise Hungary 's tax system , with three more companies expected to join the fray in the next few days . |
| 18 | THE world champion , Garry Kasparov , and the British challenger , Nigel Short , have forfeited their right to play for the world championship title , according to the official ruling body of chess , the International Chess Federation ( FIDE ) . |
| 19 | Finally , when they get back home once again they are ‘ in demand ’ , and it is in their nature to work for the family again and put their own wants or needs to the bottom of the pile ! |
| 20 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 21 | She had long since realized her husband worked for the government , but he had never discussed it with her , much less told her he was a spy . |
| 22 | erm And if you look at the second line , and begin three words in , it says ‘ the mistress , ’ the mistress is abbreviated , ‘ answers her man can not work , nor can she spare him till she be paid for what her husband did for the King 's soldiers ’ . |
| 23 | When they stood at the curb to cross the road her back ached for the support of his hand in its pit . |
| 24 | Mrs Coles expressed great regret when she parted with Mary , continued to provide her clothes and had her back to stay for the Christmas holidays . |
| 25 | are departments will be given an opportunity of explaining precisely what their development does for the village ? |
| 26 | Just as her own concerns were now absorbing her fully , the desire to see Luke , to be in his arms again paramount , the need to end their relationship ignored for the moment . |
| 27 | Her father reached for the tea pot . |
| 28 | Juliet cooked them both a meal for which she had no appetite , and watched her father leave for the hospital in his blue Cavalier . |
| 29 | Its authority to work for the removal of all barriers to the free movement of coal and steel rested on a wide array of actions , ranging from non-binding recommendations to binding decisions . |
| 30 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |