Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Within two or three days of John Salako flying out to California for his knee operation , he had me for company on the same ward . |
| 2 | The reports should be sent in the first instance to me for submission to the Advisory Committee on Policy . |
| 3 | In their place , he has advocated a more activist government role in the economy , by increasing public works spending , cutting middle-class taxes and retraining workers to prepare them for competition in the global marketplace . |
| 4 | Professor Thomas Gordon joined them for breakfast at the New Inn , after which they went to a Service at the ‘ English chapel ’ , that is to say , the Episcopalian , that is to say , the Anglican church in Scotland . |
| 5 | Waddy had been Australia 's 12th man against England in the fifth Test in 1907–08 , having scored a century and a half-century against them for NSW in the previous match . |
| 6 | It would not be difficult to conduct an informal interview with almost anyone , asking them for criticisms of the national health service , the police or the railways , all three of which confer great benefit on the population , for which they do not always receive much credit . |
| 7 | Loving both Augustus Egg and Pablo Picasso and visiting them for decades under the same roof , I feel sentimental about tearing them asunder forever . |
| 8 | The owners of these vouchers could either sell them for cash on the secondary market ; or use them to buy shares in the privatisations of 6,000 medium-to-large companies due this year . |
| 9 | The meeting will decide the commission 's recommendations on which parts of Europe should have Objective 1 status , which will qualify them for access to the largest EC aid fund . |
| 10 | They may turn round to you for reassurance in the early stages . |
| 11 | In my last message I listed the impressive accolades won by you for Rentokil in the past year . |
| 12 | Almost any ruler other than Haile Selassie would have confirmed the sentence of death passed on him for treason by the high court , but the Emperor was content to fine him heavily and imprison him . |
| 13 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 14 | There 'd be free drinks for him for years in the Wise Serpent in Micklethwaite Road , Fulham . |
| 15 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 16 | An injury time try by Keith Fielding won it for England against the brave Irish . |
| 17 | When the instrument matures the Bank will present it for payment to the relevant institution . |
| 18 | Trying to teach a concept and use it for communication at the same time is an impossible task . |
| 19 | You suggest he was secretly testing it for work on the Antarctic land mass , flying it south over the pack ice . |
| 20 | It was already his nickname with fellow-writers such as Ezra Pound ; and , in adopting it for use by the youngest generation , he may have again wished to convey , though with slightly less emphasis , the elusive character of that animal , with its instinct for feigning and dissembling . |
| 21 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 22 | Such are the smooth , easy driving qualities of the big-engined Corrado ( the same engine is also available in the VW Golf and Vento saloons ) that I suspect that this is the sort of car that drivers will appreciate when they own it , be sorry when they sell it , and describe it for years as the finest car they ever owned . |
| 23 | Many fishkeepers purchase an external power filter and use it for years with the same media . |
| 24 | The state-owned Scottish Nuclear company , which operates Scotland 's two nuclear plants , has decided to " dry store " most of its spent nuclear fuel , rather than send it for reprocessing at the British Nuclear Fuels plant at Sellafield . |
| 25 | Having built the CLI command file EE.CLI and queued it for action by the CLI , PROCE terminates and BBCBASIC(Z80) returns to the immediate mode . |
| 26 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 27 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |