Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall assume … that invented strings and certain intuitive judgements about them constitute legitimate data for linguistic research . |
| 2 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 3 | They were they were asking for them to make more slates for for less money and they were n't prepared to sit down and really talk it through with the men they just treated you know they just had this awful attitude |
| 4 | The teachers understood that what they were doing would have to change if they were to foster skills of mathematical thinking , but it was still difficult for them to change well-established habits for others of unproven value . |
| 5 | Each child was proud of how good they had been , each of them earning three stickers for the three meals . |
| 6 | Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her . |
| 7 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
| 8 | ‘ Cities of the Immortals ’ will be set up by California-based company called the Heaven on Earth Corporation , many of them providing low-cost housing for the Third World . |
| 9 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 10 | These are all editorial choices , and few of them create positive images for television audiences . |
| 11 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 12 | A rainforest receives at least 4,000mm of rain every year , 200mm of it falling each month for ten months . |
| 13 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 14 | Most of us do these things for ourselves . |
| 15 | Anyway the next day Brocklesby is berthing and I can see the captain pointing at me , my hem was showing my petticoat was showing my hat off and afterwards I said to him erm what was so funny oh he said I was telling the Queen about you having those weeds for the rehearsal yesterday and she thought it was terribly funny |
| 16 | Your doctor and the hospital will arrange for you to make regular visits for antenatal care . |
| 17 | It would be just like her to expect some recompense for whoever caused the crash . |
| 18 | Soil conservation programmes and policies , particularly those formulated by expatriates , assume the state to be neutral , able to mediate between competing interests , and to intervene above them to apply rational policies for the maximum aggregate benefit . |
| 19 | Lacuna 's pleasure in you provides great pleasure for us . |
| 20 | Her teeth caught in her trembling lower lip for a moment . |
| 21 | The unsatisfactory nature of project evaluation work and the inconclusive lessons which can be drawn from it provide little justification for the donor ‘ omniscience ’ which continues to characterize their negotiations with recipients . |
| 22 | By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 . |
| 23 | How terrible it must be for her to attend this service for Mrs Wright whose baby had survived and while the Padre was speaking the Collector accompanied his words with a silent , sympathetic prayer for Mrs Bennett : " O God , whose ways are hidden and thy works most wonderful , who makest nothing in vain , and lovest all that thou hast made , Comfort this thy servant whose heart is sore smitten and oppressed … " but the rest of the prayer was no longer in his mind , stolen no doubt by the foxes of despair that continued to raid his beliefs … in any case , it faded into a mournful reverie in which he sought an explanation for the death of Mrs Bennett 's child . |
| 24 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 25 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |
| 26 | We appeal to you to provide generous sponsorship for this initiative by the Drs Maggie and Anthony Barker . |
| 27 | Cara had so set her heart , everything , on her doing this job for her , and she — she had blown it ! |
| 28 | Or was it true that the Church was so short of people of stature ( under the age of 73 ) that only one man among them had enough stature for the see of London and for that reason his scholarship must be sacrificed on the altar of a higher good ? |
| 29 | ‘ I expect you 've heard the rumours about us seeking further investment for the station — you might even have been privy to some inside information . ’ |