Example sentences of "[vb past] for one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the study also reported for one of the five countries that babies of teenagers were at higher risks of birth defects , sudden death and other problems of birth and early infancy than were infants born to women in their early 20s . |
| 2 | ‘ For two years after college graduation , I worked for one of the small local accounting firms . |
| 3 | I worked for one of the youngest couples on our street , who were so chic they even had an Afghan hound . |
| 4 | Sally Varna stepped out of her bath , reluctant to leave the froth of delicately scented bubbles , reached for one of the enormous pink towels the maid had laid out ready for her and wrapped herself in it . |
| 5 | Matthew 25 : 35–40 ’ … whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine , you did for me . ’ |
| 6 | It remained for one of the great investigators of the Laboulbeniales to settle the question of their true affinities . |
| 7 | Sometimes you heard a soft splash as a fish jumped for one of the swarming insects . |