Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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. ) |
| 3 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They must have been — it meant for me a round journey of more than eighty miles just for a home fixture . |
| 7 | 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 . |