Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [pron] [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 This has its advantages for the mother .
2 Not that this affected his appetite for the bottles on Franco 's highest shelf .
3 This concerns your responsibility for the accuracy of the parliamentary record .
4 This gave them sympathy for the victims of the slave trade and slavery and , as the abolitionist John Bowring stressed , formed a strong bond of union between them .
5 If Hastings ' performance did much to underline his candidacy for the Lions captaincy — no one else of his individual stature has a similar gift for bringing players together on and off the field — it also made a significant contribution in bringing the new Murrayfield to life .
6 The rebuff did much to undermine his enthusiasm for the Conservative party .
7 The Security Council debate had been preceded by a series of statements by and an exchange of letters between de Klerk and Mandela in which each stated their terms for the resumption of constitutional talks .
8 They all sat around , reminding each other of things they all remembered , each waiting his cue for the next reminiscence to be slotted in .
9 In 1216 it was Eustace who commanded the fleet which ferried Philip 's son , Louis , across to England when the latter mounted his bid for the English throne .
10 ‘ I thought I had made that clear , ’ said Wheeler with no attempt at all to disguise his contempt for the Archdeacon .
11 The Articles shown in this catalogue are intended for all to show their support for the ANC 's principled stand against Apartheid and for a new unitary democratic non-racial South Africa .
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