Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 2 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 3 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 4 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Erm , Chair , delegates thank you for the welcome and thank you for the invitation to speak to you . |
| 6 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 7 | As in Between , the binary definitions on which structuralist theory is founded receive parodic treatment which voids them of their original function and uses them for the purpose of telling the tale(s) of the novel . |
| 8 | Like my man in Hampstead , he does n't trust people to collect money and use it for the purpose they say they will . |
| 9 | In the real , as opposed to celluloid , world , Roxburgh would settle for a win emphatic enough to stabilise his team and prepare them for the more demanding games ahead . |
| 10 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 11 | I 've moved back into and er I 'd just like to say I 'm sure on behalf of all of you and the people of that we see this as a tremendous move and thank you for the work you 've put in . |
| 12 | It will be white with a god-like figure like those Tibetan Buddhist temples which reflect the old vision of the winged disc and prepare us for the new . |
| 13 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 14 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 15 | ‘ The money is a bona fide payment in thanks for your co-operation and to compensate you for the upheaval . |
| 16 | Yes , er maybe I would n't have mentioned it , but er , well , that 's a story of one like dozens of people , congratulating us , that at long last we 're going to do something about the environment and protect it for the future of our children , and they consider it money well spent , and asking the question , why was n't it never done before . |
| 17 | It 's also a source of food and sport for Lithuanians who ride and ski in their forests and hunt game and prepare it for the table . |
| 18 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 20 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 21 | Some may choose to neglect their health or to trade it for the freedom to do other things , as does the business executive who opts for a stressful way of life in pursuit of material success . |
| 22 | A health authority should seek out a group of " mature " female nurses and a group of male nurses who are in training and prepare them for the purpose of dispelling those commonly held misconceptions . |
| 23 | The promise of high rewards is necessary to provide an incentive to encourage people to undergo this training and to compensate them for the sacrifice involved . |
| 24 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 25 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 26 | In a letter the Chief Executive of RSNC , The Wildlife Trust Partnership , Tim Cordy , tells Middlesbrough : ‘ The designation is both an accolade and a challenge and acknowledges you for the contributions which already you have made towards environmental improvement , and the future plans you have to encourage sustainable development . ’ |
| 27 | God had n't fully maintained His help to keep condescension from her tone or to prepare her for the answer when it came : ‘ Yes , I went to school , ma'am . |
| 28 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 29 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 30 | Here to stay for at least for another year and to haunt me for the next fifteen . |