Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same .
2 In the meantime , thanks to him for the loan of this lovable and interesting guitar .
3 At the Redoubt Mr Major told the 2,400 troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing .
4 At the Redoubt Mr Major told troops including those from the Cheshire Regiment and Royal Engineers : ‘ I wanted to see what was happening on the ground and particularly to express my thanks to you for the work you are doing .
5 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 .
6 It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us .
7 You can bring notes with you for the talk but you should avoid reading them to your audience .
8 There is a resigned look from Ann and Tony , but John and I ( the more English pair ? ) take ice axes and haul a small berg ashore , beating lumps off it for the tea .
9 If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins .
10 They 're more likely to leave George 's reins to you for the time being .
11 Taking the case at its highest against the plaintiffs I assume for the purposes of considering this point that either Mr. Twycross or his secretary took the opportunity of the presence of the son in the office to hand the letters in their envelopes to him for the purpose of delivery to the parents .
12 One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’
13 Peel the patates for me for the soup , she said : and I 'll keep the pan of choux mixture for you to lick .
14 In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault .
15 Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting .
16 I want some quotes from them for the magazine story .
17 The specificity of this form of violence or coercion has to be recognized , however one feels about the terrible consequences of it for the innocent .
18 Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune .
19 He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager .
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