Example sentences of "for [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Carne was formerly married to Burt Reynolds and became famous for her part in the American Laugh-In T-V series of the sixties . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dot waited for her share of the hot dish . |
| 13 | When appealed to for her support over the ginger beer , Araminta had laughed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In 1899 one York wife responded to a question about the difficulties of providing footwear for her family in the following way : |
| 19 | Diana , who is patron of the British Deaf Association , won warm praise for her use of the complicated communication technique . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | From the gates ahead , she had left for her wedding in the big Church of Ireland church in Naas . |
| 26 | Cleveland County Council has been praised for its work in the equal opportunities field . |
| 27 | A brilliant if at times eccentric leader , he built up the press from scratch into a respected publishing house , noted in particular for its work in the literary field , and in machine intelligence , now known as artificial intelligence . |
| 28 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 29 | BA , up 2p to 211p , wants the cash for its share of the UAL buyout . |
| 30 | … the profound darkness of every part of the city in which there are not shops illuminated by the owners with gas … there is not a little country town in England which is not incomparably better lighted than any street in Paris which depends for its illumination upon the public regulations of the City . |