Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 2 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | HELENA Bonham-Carter , the actress , was yesterday granted a High Court injunction in London against a fan who has pestered her for several years . |
| 5 | The £6 million Juventus player has finally been forced to accept that the cartilage damage which has troubled him for several weeks requires surgery . |
| 6 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |
| 7 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 8 | ‘ You , my boy , have done a wonderful thing for us and in return we wish to do something for you . |
| 9 | But he was n't , and on some subconscious level she wanted to punish him for deceiving her . |
| 10 | Eventually , Reid said , ‘ All Susan ever said about her father was that he was a grade-A shit who 'd ignored her for most of her life and thought money was a good substitute for love . |
| 11 | People who are paying seventy eighty pound a month mortgage who 've had them for years and then |
| 12 | ‘ I told you , Niall 's not the tyrant you seem to take him for . ’ |
| 13 | At the moment it helps to console me for my lack in that direction . ’ |
| 14 | And in my diary I 've got one for tomorrow night , for an organization called the Judges Guild in Leicester , somewhere in the Road area . |
| 15 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |
| 16 | I 'm the sort of person who wants to do everything for the people I love and he is the sort of person who 's self-sufficient , or seems to be … = ’ she paused . |
| 17 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |
| 18 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 19 | She tried to control herself , but the will which had driven her for so long was broken , whether forever , or temporarily , she did not know . |
| 20 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 21 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 22 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 23 | He was still the hard , ambitious man who had married her for her father 's company , not for love . |
| 24 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 25 | Did she agonizingly miss the faithless Finn who had deserted her for a cross-eyed creature ? |
| 26 | The grandmother who had held him for a family photograph ; the mother Eda , the father Meir , the brothers Chaim , Avram , Aizik and Josef ; the sisters Selma and Esther . |
| 27 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 28 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 29 | Before his arrival she endeavoured to prepare herself for all exigencies , but this was difficult to do because she had no idea what sort of a man he was going to be . |
| 30 | If you can not fit the materials yourself , ask a friend or relation you trust to do it for you . |