Example sentences of "for [det] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over .
2 The seal wanted to race south and burn off all her blubber , but she knew the penguin was scared , so she swam in lazy circles around the ice raft , singing and talking and giving the penguin names for all the new birds they saw , birds too canny to fly as far north as the Pole for fear of freezing .
3 For all the eight years I attended school in Parma there was always the problem of where to eat the midday meal at that time no school in Italy provided lunches .
4 The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate .
5 ‘ And for all the other men I killed . ’
6 May I borrow some space in your magazine to say a big thank you for all the good wishes we have received in connection with the Presidency of the Baptist Union of Scotland ?
7 We use this for all the Egyptian things we do .
8 Unless you have extremely stringent security requirements , it is strongly recommended that you have only one LIFESPAN Process for all your live data ; ie. for all the configurable items you wish LIFESPAN to manage .
9 The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit
10 But for all Patrick Milligan 's wrath , and for all the constant beatings he administered to Ellie with his thick leather belt , he was unable to break her will .
11 It was midway through a Friday afternoon , and Adele Venetz had taken the restaurant 's van to the cash-and-carry for all the last-minute supplies they 'd be needing for Saturday 's party catering job , leaving her sister and Alina to manage the business alone .
12 for all the fried foods I 'm not
13 He is respectful and values people for all the positive qualities they show , reflecting that value in the courtesies he extends to them .
14 He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done .
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