Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 2 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 3 | ‘ So what we did was to take a couple of months for everybody in the band to write songs , and to rehearse everything . |
| 4 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 5 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 6 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 7 | I am sorry The Mozartean Players omit the repeat in the first movement of K542 , which is one of Mozart 's best Trios ' especially since there is plenty of room for it on the disc . |
| 8 | It increases the mortality of pigs and causes an awful lot of problems for anyone in the pig industry . ’ |
| 9 | It increases the mortality of pigs and causes an awful lot of problems for anyone in the pig industry . ’ |
| 10 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 11 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 12 | It can be seen from this that although David Barclay senior was not ‘ the founder of Barclays Bank ’ as he has sometimes been named , his sons James , David , and John were important early partners in the bank , and the mercantile fortune he had built up an important source of capital for it from the 1770s . |
| 13 | Well I wo n't be paying for another lot of lessons for you at the drama class David because that 's two weeks in a row you 've been saying you 've not gon na go . |
| 14 | ‘ Brother , if you will send it to me I will make lots of drawings for you of the Heike , and whatever you want … . |
| 15 | A top league of ten clubs is also intended to appease those who were intent on breaking away and forming a Scottish Super League , since there will be a built-in level of autonomy for them within the Scottish league framework . |
| 16 | Malcolm Badenoch , 25 , of High Street , Elgin , had brought in local youths , some still at school , to act as dealers for him in the sale of the drugs at all-night raves , Lord MacLean was told . |
| 17 | Certainly , we explore this as an avenue towards getting a job specification in place for everybody in the Company . |
| 18 | ‘ What he 's saying is that they play away quite happily , not realizing what 's in store for them in the rest of their lives . |
| 19 | Tutilo would be warned of what was in store for him by the end of Vespers , if not before . |
| 20 | And when they were travelling it was Anna who looked after Mena , you know , ordering in languages for her in the wagon-restaurant . |
| 21 | Has the position of the director changed in theatre for you over the years ? |
| 22 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 23 | Whatever Beryl believes or pretends to believe about her brother being mugged , he was in fact deliberately murdered by someone lying in wait for him on the scaffolding . |
| 24 | The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light , and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet , the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts , heavy jungle boots and short thick socks . |
| 25 | He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year . |
| 26 | A few dealers accepted the fines as a matter of course , especially as accumulated funds got spent on drinks for everybody in the local pub on Friday night . |
| 27 | After he became king , Aldhelm wrote a treatise on metre for him in the form of a letter to Arcircius ( Aldfrith ) and Adomnán , abbot of Iona , gave him a copy of his work on The Holy Places ( HE V , 15 ) . |
| 28 | If there are likely to be difficulties about accommodation for yourself as the daughter at home , after your parent 's death , contact should be made well before this event is imminent with the Housing Manager of the local council for advice , and you might write also to the Housing Corporation Head Office , Maple House , 149 Tottenham Court Road , London W1P 0BN , who will send a free directory of registered Housing Associations and other housing schemes in the area of your choice , so that you can begin forward planning . |
| 29 | For example , how did these so-called professionals come to get involved with us — and what is at stake for them in the way they define their relationship to us ? |
| 30 | IT IS many years since I looked at Punch for anything except the advertisements . |