Example sentences of "for [pos pn] [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 2 | I then had another operation , this time for my back where a piece of my spine was removed and a piece of metal inserted . |
| 3 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 4 | BRITISH holidaymakers told yesterday how they fled for their lives when a killer flood surged through their campsite . |
| 5 | It is important to understand that parents do not lose the parental responsibility they have for their child when a care order is made although they may not be entirely free to exercise it as they wish . |
| 6 | But most families in Britain are familiar with using hospitals and demand in-patient care for their relatives when a crisis arises . |
| 7 | Many say they have had to turn down surgery , for instance , because they could not find alternative care for their dependants when a bed became available . |
| 8 | The reaction of parents to this knowledge varied from throwing the user out of the family home to paying for their habit until a place at a treatment centre could be found ( see Dorn and South 1987 ) . |
| 9 | He 'd sold his own car for cash in Carlisle , and he had more important uses for his funds than a guest-house bed . |
| 10 | There has n't been much personal satisfaction for Neil Fairbrother during a Lancashire campaign bedevilled by injuries and under-achievement , but what more efficacious balm for his troubles than a century in the Roses match at Headingley . |