Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever might have been the prosaic reason for his initial posting to Masai District , an officer who stayed long enough and had a sufficiently striking personality could expect to become locally famous not only for his love of the Masai but also for the love they bore for him . |
| 2 | Sir Daniel Macnee , Scotland 's leading portrait painter of his day and President of the Royal Scottish Academy , painted boxes at Cumnock as a young man , and William Leighton Leitch who worked first in Cumnock and then for the Smith brothers , later found fame in London as a water-colourist and for over 20 years visited Buckingham Palace and other royal residences where he taught painting to Queen Victoria and her family . |
| 3 | Her mother had reacted to the subject in a predictable way , and had expatiated at some length about the absurdity of taking a dress all the way to Paris and back for the sake of one evening 's amusement , but in the end she had consented to do something about it . |
| 4 | The unique ‘ Passport to Amsterdam ’ booklet giving a host of useful information for travellers to Holland and specifically for the visitors to the Dutch Capital . |
| 5 | On one hand , there is increasing support in the USA and abroad for the establishment of age criteria for withholding medical therapy . |