Example sentences of "of [verb] for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 From small beginnings the Credit Union has grown and flourished and offers advice and a means of saving for anyone in the parish .
2 Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands .
3 I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were .
4 Paul speaks of suing for it before the praetor fideicommissarius .
5 People who have had experience of caring for someone on a long-term basis stress how important it is to lay down certain ‘ house rules ’ beforehand .
6 The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival .
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