Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 2 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 3 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 4 | He will be long remembered , valued and respected by me for the development of a movement which firmly established " People 's Art " as part of the expectation of education for each person and especially for children . |
| 5 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 6 | He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years . |
| 7 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 8 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
| 9 | The Statue of the Etook Ha'chllt he 'd bartered for in a little town called Slew , which was now , regrettably , a blasted spot , its citizens the victims of a purge visited upon them for the crime of a song , written in the dialect of their community , suggesting that the Autarch of Yzordderrex lacked testicles . |
| 10 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 11 | It 's only lent to me for a week |
| 12 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 13 | a capital sum may be paid directly to the settlor ; 2. a capital sum may be paid indirectly to the settlor ; 3. a capital sum may be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if a sum is paid to any third party at the settlor 's direction ; 4. a capital sum shall be deemed to be paid to the settlor if the sum is paid to any third party by virtue of an assignment by the settlor of his right to receive it ; and 5. a capital sum shall be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if it is otherwise paid or applied by them for the benefit of the settlor . |
| 14 | Bellybutton , kneeling over his work , thought about it for a second , then spread his hands in a gesture of ignorance . |
| 15 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 16 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 17 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
| 18 | On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them . |
| 19 | I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape . |
| 20 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 21 | He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions . |
| 22 | ‘ Glad to be rid of you for a while , ’ she retorted . |
| 23 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 24 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 25 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 26 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Considering I 'm eight and a half months pregnant and have n't heard from you for a couple of weeks . |
| 29 | The defendants , some of them very young , belonged to a small left-wing group known as Everyone for the Motherland Movement ( Movimiento Todos por la Patria — MTP ) ; at the time 13 of them were arrested inside the barracks and five nearby , while two , including a priest , surrendered later . |
| 30 | ‘ To the lighthouse ’ had been our motto , and there we went , leading George , while the others made up a fire and roasted whole the lamb they had brought with them for a picnic luncheon . |