Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 2 | Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days , |
| 3 | There would be no tall good-looking man waiting for them at the Secret Cove and , once there , she found the Place was , indeed , deserted . |
| 4 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 5 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
| 6 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 7 | It would mean a longer walk for them round the northward coil of the river , but that was a small matter once they were out of the town . |
| 8 | A determined protest squad went into action in Thursley this week , 30 years ago , to stop a car rally which would have meant no sleep for them until the early hours of the morning . |
| 9 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 10 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 11 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 12 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 13 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 14 | Concern over the standard of living of servicemen was answered by Yeltsin , who detailed provisions for them in the Russian budget . |
| 15 | After leaving school the situation of course is different , although the position of young wage earners in the household may well have depended upon the employment opportunities available for them in the local economy . |
| 16 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
| 17 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 18 | It is my view , of course , that we have no such idea , and no need of it , since we do not take condition-sets for effects to be merely " enough " for them in the given sense . |
| 19 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 20 | A top league of ten clubs is also intended to appease those who were intent on breaking away and forming a Scottish Super League , since there will be a built-in level of autonomy for them within the Scottish league framework . |
| 21 | He was good enough to organize a complimentary flight for me on the Imperial Airways ' flying boat which plied the sea and air routes between Long Island Sound and Bermuda several times each week . |
| 22 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 23 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
| 24 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 25 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 26 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 27 | Hopefully it will do the same for me in the Welsh mountains , and enable me to walk onto specific grid bearings and find some ancient markers . |
| 28 | I am pleased to inform you that a place has been reserved for you on the above course . |
| 29 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 30 | An option for processing mail has been selected and no mail exists for you at the present time . |