Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 2 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 3 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 4 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 5 | In the first part I argue for the inclusion of gender awareness as a valid dimension of educational analysis of the arts and , as a vehicle for this argument , posit a set of four general criteria which might legitimately be used by arts educators as part of a re-evaluation of the arts curriculum in this regard . |
| 6 | ‘ If you must have chapter and verse — you remember that piece I did for the Statesman ? |
| 7 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 8 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 9 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 10 | You should learn from this that it does not matter what side you choose for the base as long as you choose the correct Perpendicular height to go with the base . |
| 11 | With their eyes erect and fear in their speed they run for the safety of the waves . |
| 12 | Lance Gardner , who works at the Castlefields Health Centre , Runcorn , in Cheshire , says the arrangement should give nurses the recognition they deserve for the work they do . |
| 13 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 14 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 15 | It is unfortunate that Dustin did not similarly mime the songs he sings while strumming a guitar ( an instrument he studied for the part ) , because his singing voice is strained and uncomfortably high . |
| 16 | I get bored easily , so the only plan I have for the future is not to get comfortable with any one thing . ’ |
| 17 | With a resolute nod she reached for the telephone . |
| 18 | But seriously the work we do for the union is only one part of the equation . |
| 19 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 20 | If you wish to effect a placement in a residential or nursing home we hope for the time being it will help resolve your problem . |
| 21 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 22 | On leaving Oxford without a degree he studied for the stage at the Embassy Theatre School , and made his London début at the Queen 's Theatre on 6 September 1937 with ( Sir ) John Gielgud in Shakespeare 's Richard II . |
| 23 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 24 | At last he raised his head , and with a feeling of dread she searched for the triumph she was sure she must see now in his eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 26 | Despising herself for her weakness she reached for the telephone , dialling Nick 's number . |
| 27 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 28 | When both mares began aiding and abetting one another to increase the confusion and alarm , somewhere high over the Gulf I made for the cabin to solicit help . |
| 29 | And er it used to be quite event when you saw all the queue and , and er of course with Walsall Wood you 've got the room over the shop where the Guild room was and a rest room I think for the staff . |
| 30 | How risky in terms of money/reputation is the job you do for the company ? |