Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh at Handsworth , I 'm meant to go there this evening to speak to the domestic bursar the residents ' officer and someone else , God knows , from the university to put my case forward for why I had to leave Handsworth and that , why I should n't pay the money . |
| 2 | He had the singular good fortune not to die in the trenches , but the experience undermined his health severely for all that . |
| 3 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 4 | They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free . |
| 5 | His own competent and useful abridgement served its purpose well for nearly seventy years . |
| 6 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |