Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 2 | There was the most profound admiration mingled with her affection for the elder sister who had brought her up ever since their mother 's death , twelve years ago . |
| 3 | The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train . |
| 4 | She bumped into Charlie later on , as she was heading out with her list for the coffee-shop order . |
| 5 | Despite living with her mother for the past eight years , she saw her foster parents every other weekend and went on holidays with them . |
| 6 | Nell pumped up the air , constricting the blood supply , then bled it out again , listening with her stethoscope for the returning pulse . |
| 7 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 8 | Buddhists with this expectation of Maitri , Jews with their longing for the messianic age , Christians with their hope of the second coming of Christ , can talk together about the golden age ahead — their respective eschatologies , their glimpses of an eternal city , the abiding home of the human spirit . |
| 9 | Do you f you you feel that erm present government , erm do you feel that erm the other political parties what they 're erm suggesting with their policies for the inner cites , do you think they 're any better ? |
| 10 | João went off hunting in the Alentejo with his friends for the last three days before the wedding , so Sara had little opportunity to get to know him better . |
| 11 | Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour . |
| 12 | No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden . |
| 13 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 14 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |
| 15 | Amer Midani , United 's second largest shareholder , had apparently annoyed Edwards last weekend by with his call for the public flotation of the shares . |
| 16 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 17 | Faha Sanchita , defending , said that Uddin had 10 years of experience in the food business and had owned and run the Lalquila with his brother for the last five years without any hygiene problems . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 19 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 20 | He works in the fashion business and has lived with his girlfriend for the past six years . |
| 21 | Ben Bateman ( far right , seated ) , poses with his colleagues for the 1922–23 Palace team photograph . |
| 22 | This gave him his reputation as a young scholar of great originality , and , combined with his gift for the clear and persuasive exposition of his ideas , brought him an international range of senior academic appointments . |
| 23 | The dog is with his owner for the greater part of the weekend and , through the week , the dog is road walked to produce fitness and show condition , so the ordinary show dog , apart from receiving the care and love of his owner , receives exercise and mental stimulus and is bonded with his owner by a common purpose . |
| 24 | We are told the new C-in-C vetoed the suggestion from the outset and , in the absence of evidence from the archives , this is surely inconsistent with his demand for the agreed build-up of the Command , his determination to shed the twin-engined bombers in favour of four-engined Stirlings , Halifaxes and Lancasters , and his bitter and seemingly endless feud with the Navy ( and , to a lesser degree , the Army ) about the " milking " of his Command . |
| 25 | WARTIME Spitfire pilot F/L Tony Cooper was recently re-united with his aircraft for the first time since crashing on marshland near the Humber Estuary in 1944 . |
| 26 | A crushing Unionist victory in 1915 , bringing with it disaster for the Labour party and a major setback for the " New Liberalism " might have ended the difficulty , but when the First World War intervened the problem remained . |
| 27 | This corresponds relatively well with our results for the pou[c] POU domain . |
| 28 | Arrange with your vet for the appropriate medication to be available and do not buy a scour mixture on price or free gift basis … the bugs can not wear the wellies ! |
| 29 | If you wish to join , you should complete the membership form below and send it to The Royal Air Forces Association , 43 Grove Park Road , Chiswick , London W4 3RX , together with your remittance for the appropriate membership fee . |
| 30 | Competing for the trophy will not interfere with your eligibility for the traditional category prizes awarded at the National Fun Run . |