Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 31 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 32 | Luckily we have the example of rights won for us by our forebears whose fight is continued by the Ramblers Association . |
| 33 | Luckily we have the example of rights won for us by our forebears whose fight is continued by the Ramblers Association . |
| 34 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 35 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
| 36 | Since Alford was described on the ballot paper merely as ‘ The Labour Candidate ’ , it would not be surprising if quite a few voters were confused , and voted for him by mistake . |
| 37 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 38 | For that , Nicholas had his own company , and another one hundred men picked for him by Pesaro . |
| 39 | Now it 's a system you go through if you break the law , you know we have an education system which is organised for us by our local community who builds the school , who runs the school , who 's on the governors of those schools . |
| 40 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 41 | Abberley looks for something by his bed . ) |
| 42 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |
| 43 | Several groups of Americans were turned away despite protests that tables had been booked for them by Čedok or by their hotels . |
| 44 | Most days Jo left the house with her breasts strapped into a brassiere that had been tailored for her by her mother 's corsetière , two thick white cotton cones attached to a four-inch band , meagrely edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 45 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 46 | The chip is being manufactured for it by NEC . |
| 47 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 48 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 49 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 50 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
| 51 | Their refusal to face the fact that many schools want to opt out of having their budgeting done for them by remote administrators . |
| 52 | If you are in any doubt as to whether you can carry out this modification , have it done for you by your local repairer , or at least seek more detailed instructions . |
| 53 | In many cases some of the work has been done for you by previous scholars ; so , for example there is a book called Allusions in Ulysses ( which lists allusions made in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ) . |
| 54 | So in fact , you 're daily planning has been done for you by somebody else . |
| 55 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
| 56 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 57 | She 's singing ‘ More ’ , a torch song written for her by Stephen Sondheim , a haunting , soul-wrenching tale of unrequited love . |
| 58 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 59 | Emma Johnson , Sir Charles Groves , and the ASV team seemed eminently satisfied with the results , and afterwards the soloist went on to speak of her growing involvement with contemporary music , notably the new concerto written for her by Michael Berkeley . |
| 60 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |