Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was soon dismissed for what an industrial tribunal described as ‘ indulging in behaviour short of intercourse ’ with the executive 's wife . |
| 2 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 3 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 4 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
| 5 | But civil strife and political violence , the quick and easy expedients of the gun and the bomb , already had for him a romantic and almost Byronic aura . |
| 6 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 7 | It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France . |
| 8 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 9 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 10 | Please reserve for me a sixteenth of a page space in the August issue of Folk Roots . |
| 11 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 12 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 13 | Tennis World readers Mr and Mrs Lower , from Chesterfield , came nearest to marking the exact location of the ball in three separate challenges and therefore win for themselves an all expenses trip to the fabulous Carnivals Crystal Palace Hotel in the Bahamas , courtesy of Carnivals and American Airlines . |