Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 2 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 3 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 4 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
| 5 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 6 | That is the basis of the famous " niche " strategy which means that you secure for yourself a useful market by doing something which the big boys find uneconomical to do at the price you can manage . |
| 7 | Breathlessly she watched for what the moving flags would say next . |
| 8 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |
| 9 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 10 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
| 11 | In reality , of course , it stands for something a whole lot less fierce-sounding — simply one 's partner in life . |
| 12 | They must have been — it meant for me a round journey of more than eighty miles just for a home fixture . |
| 13 | He declined the cigarette , he lit for himself a small cigar . |
| 14 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |