Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 2 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 3 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 4 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 5 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 7 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 8 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 9 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 10 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 11 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 12 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 13 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |
| 14 | It 's done nothing for the box . |
| 15 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |
| 16 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 17 | Mills ( 1980 ) argues that both initial and in-service teacher education fails to prepare them for the task . |