Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun sg] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I groped around with my foot for the table-leg and pressed down hard until the spasm gradually subsided . |
| 2 | My eyes were very bad , and I had to pay a young curate to help me with my work for the church . |
| 3 | And that night of course in The Bar we were all saying , oh god when she jumps into the truck , how fabulous was that , it just makes you want to cheer ; and Boy thought again , well that is how life is , that is how I feel , that is how I feel when I 'm leaving the bar with my husband for the night , my husband-to-be , that 's just what I think when I 'm getting into his car , Goodbye Father , Goodbye . |
| 4 | But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present . |
| 5 | Although , in manners bound , he held and played with her hand for the rest of the drive home , he felt that he could have done instead with a nice talk about hunting . |
| 6 | At last she wrote to Sir John Merchiston , who was a remote cousin , but whom she had known when she came as a débutante to visit here with her family for the hunting . ’ |
| 7 | Loyalty to her clerical superiors , to the Church and all it stood for , battled with her contempt for the way in which the senior clergy had behaved both to herself and to Amy . |
| 8 | It was the first step in the emotional detachment that would dominate her relations with her mother for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | Due to the very nature of history with its concern for the reconstruction of the past , these problems lie more so with history than with any other discipline . |
| 10 | With its proposal for the granting of a maximum of three days consecutive holiday , it actually worsened some workers ' conditions . |
| 11 | Now they say the sales likely to fall through along with their hope for the future . |
| 12 | Shabba Ranks and his enigmatic manager ‘ The Specialist ’ seem to be in a minority with their enthusiasm for the record . |
| 13 | And that 's the way the authorities should be moving forward with their planning for the county . |
| 14 | ‘ I happened to mention that a mutual friend was going to Bibury with his girl for the weekend . |
| 15 | I think it 's partly to do with his admiration for the language , and also his background as both a reported and a writer . ’ |
| 16 | After all , he voted with his Government for the privatisation Bill which caused the sorry state of affairs in the first place . |
| 17 | As he scrambled awkwardly to his feet , he switched the knife to his right hand and clawed behind him with his left for the pistol 's butt . |
| 18 | On 14 February 1637 , for example , he granted licence to Lady Mary Crane to cut down underwood in Stoke Park in Salcey Forest ‘ until she had made an agreement with His Majesty for the disafforestment thereof . |
| 19 | Any student who wishes to submit a medical certificate shall arrange with his doctor for the certificate to be forwarded directly to the course director or senior course tutor for the course on which he is enrolled . |
| 20 | Check Paul 's account with his bank for the week . |
| 21 | In the United States , Margaret Ribble ( 1943 ) published The Rights of Infants ; in England John Bowlby ( 1952 ) followed up his earlier studies of maternal deprivation as an antecedent of what he had called ‘ the affectionless character ’ ( 1946 ) with his report for the World Health Organization , Maternal Care and Mental Health ; and in the opening volume of the journal Psycho-Analytic Study of the Child , Rene Spitz ( 1945 ) published his paper on hospitalized infants and the effects of lack of mothering , and supported this with the widely circulated documentary film , Grief : a Peril in Infancy . |
| 22 | Fleetwood 's powers thus lapsed , and Blackpool retained control over the line , bringing with it responsibility for the track and the roadway up to 18″ on either side . |
| 23 | A 15-foot canoe waited along with our poler for the week , Matata . |
| 24 | If you prefer some other way of defining complexity , I do n't care and I would be happy to go along with your definition for the sake of discussion . |