Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We understand from the Office of Fair Trading and the Consumer Credit Sub-Committee of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration that — although there is clearly opportunity for it within the close-knit personal relationship between the check trader and the customer — exploitation of customers seems very rare . |
| 2 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 3 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 4 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 5 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 6 | During a walkabout on Merseyside , the Princess of Wales was overcome by tears after the crowd voiced their support for her amid the current press controversy surrounding her marriage . |
| 7 | To a king about to embark on war , the support of wise counsels and mighty powers was indeed essential , and the men honoured in 1337 repaid the king 's generosity by loyal support for him in the forthcoming campaigns . |
| 8 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 9 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 10 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 11 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 14 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 15 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 16 | Together they had laboured in the fields until fortune smiled on Elizabeth ; while she was still in her teens , her family were befriended by a wealthy benefactor who had her educated and , in 1744 , arranged a marriage for her with the 13th Earl of Glencairn . |
| 17 | Some forty former pupils attended a farewell lunch for her over the gaudy weekend . |
| 18 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 19 | There is no reliable diagnostic test for it in the living animal . |
| 20 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 21 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 22 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
| 23 | Sorry , we can not find a place for you in the Christian ministry . ’ |
| 24 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 25 | I was saying the single biggest difference for me between the two sides has A been the passing but also the movement . |
| 26 | He also said he had no desire to tackle the principle of comprehensive education : ‘ I do n't see any need for it at the present time . |
| 27 | The past rejections he had been able to live with ; there was always the hope that one day , sooner or later , there would be a vacancy for him within the Russian Space Programme . |
| 28 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 29 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 30 | There is no room for her in the geriatric ward either , or wo n't be , until Amy dies , which may not be long . |