Example sentences of "for [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nichola from Bordon received Nintendo Game Boy set and her mother won Somerfield shopping vouchers to the value of £100 for her help with the fancy dress . |
| 2 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 3 | In addition , Mrs P. Wüstefeld is thanked for her assistance with the experimental and analytical work . |
| 4 | Last night , as Lesley fought for her life in the intensive care unit at the Royal Liverpool hospital , a 28-year-old man was being questioned by police . |
| 5 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |
| 6 | Silke Maier-Witt , a former member of the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) arrested in east Germany in 1990 [ see p. 37828 ] , was sentenced by a Stuttgart court to 10 years ' imprisonment on Oct. 8 for her part in the 1977 murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer [ see pp. 28743 ; 28920 ] and in the 1979 attempted assassination of Gen. Alexander Haig [ see p. 29913 ] . |
| 7 | Moore was sentenced for her part in the 1982 bombing of the Droppin' Well pub at Ballykelly , Co Londonderry . |
| 8 | Carne was formerly married to Burt Reynolds and became famous for her part in the American Laugh-In T-V series of the sixties . |
| 9 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 10 | After the banning of The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall was denied the recognition she deserved for her mastery of the narrative technique of interior monologue and as a writer who dealt with a great variety of themes , such as World War I , materialism , Catholicism , and the suppression of women by patriarchal society . |
| 11 | presented ( retiring Teachers ' Representative ) with a beautiful bowl of plants on behalf of all the teachers and thanked for her work over the past years . |
| 12 | The Lord Mayor of Dublin , Gay Mitchell , said today that his office was informed that the Nobel Prize winner , renowned for her work with the poor , will travel to Dublin next month . |
| 13 | welcomed everyone with the news that had been awarded a GL&SE Sports Council Award for Services to Sport , in the category of ‘ Raising Standards of Performance ’ for her work with the National Display Team . |
| 14 | Dr Marie Stopes , the English doctor who is famous for her work in the 1920s on marital relations said of the Jewish marital laws of Taharat HaMishpachah : |
| 15 | Mr Justice Ian Kennedy said he wanted to know about arrangements for her supervision over the next two years . |
| 16 | Dot waited for her share of the hot dish . |
| 17 | When appealed to for her support over the ginger beer , Araminta had laughed . |
| 18 | Amid the boy 's triple obsession with sex , cricket and poetry , incidents prefigure insurgent communal hatreds , from Roshan 's ambivalence at kissing the pok-tainted lips of a Christian to a Hindu teacher 's beating at her brothers ' hands for her affair with the Muslim schoolboy . |
| 19 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 20 | It had been built in the depression of 1870 — when most villagers were out of work — by the Countess of Saracen , whose birthday was still celebrated , and a mass said for her soul in the local Church of St Peter . |
| 21 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 22 | In 1899 one York wife responded to a question about the difficulties of providing footwear for her family in the following way : |
| 23 | Diana , who is patron of the British Deaf Association , won warm praise for her use of the complicated communication technique . |
| 24 | Someone called Prue , who until today had remained hidden in the wardrobe-room on the first floor pedalling her sewing machine , had a chair allocated for her use in the prompt corner and a space reserved for cotton reels and safety pins on the props table in the wings . |
| 25 | Yet while Liz , the good daughter , the dutiful daughter , was taking a deep hot bath on New Year 's Eve before changing for her party , Shirley the rebel was serving up a hot meal for her mother in the old house in Abercorn Avenue before rushing back ( without appearing to rush ) to see what was happening in her own oven at home , where she was cooking a goose for her husband Cliff , his brother Steve and his wife Dora , her own mother- and father-in-law , and Dora 's Uncle Fred . |
| 26 | One object which did escape episcopal control was the relic of the True Cross , secured by the ex-queen Radegund , for her nunnery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers . |
| 27 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 28 | She tried to pray for her father at the same time , but Madeleine danced across her invocation , Madeleine provocative in yellow piqué and high-heeled sandals disrupted her holy words . |
| 29 | MARTI Caine is to go ahead with plans for her role as the Red Queen in Snow White at Cardiff 's New Theatre — even if cancer strikes her again . |
| 30 | From the gates ahead , she had left for her wedding in the big Church of Ireland church in Naas . |