Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 2 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 3 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 4 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’ |
| 6 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 7 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 8 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 9 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 10 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 11 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 12 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 13 | But by 1830 Burn had left the Greek revival behind him for the subdued Italianate of his branch banks and the big , simple palazzo from of his New Club on Edinburgh 's Princes Street of 1834 . |
| 14 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 15 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 16 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 17 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 18 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 19 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 20 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 21 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 22 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 23 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 24 | The next issue of Leads is scheduled for January 1990 and the copy deadline for you to submit information to us for the back page is 15 December 1989 . |
| 25 | And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years . |
| 26 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 27 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 28 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 29 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 30 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |