Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 2 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 3 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 4 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 5 | In principle the Central Authority could also delegate some of the functions reserved for it in the Electricity Act . |
| 6 | They enjoyed the special places reserved for them in the synagogues which were in full view of the congregation . |
| 7 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 8 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 9 | On the landing , looking out over the High Street , Aziz , wearing new brown overalls bought for him by the headmaster , seemed to be waving to his friend . |
| 10 | Today a team of friends played for him against the Brize Norton Club , before the match he walked the boundary with the great grandson of a former team mate . |
| 11 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |