Example sentences of "[verb] for her by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 's singing ‘ More ’ , a torch song written for her by Stephen Sondheim , a haunting , soul-wrenching tale of unrequited love . |
| 4 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |
| 7 | For example , Mrs Thatcher convened a meeting of ministers to consider the now legendary minute entitled ‘ It Took a Riot ’ prepared for her by Michael Heseltine , then Secretary of State for the Environment , based on his experiences in Merseyside following the inner-city riots of July 1981 . |
| 8 | This had been prepared for her by Dolores , or one of the maids . |
| 9 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 10 | A year later there was a sensation in the newspapers , when an EMI employee revealed that the ageing Kirsten Flagstad 's top Cs in the love duet in Act II had been sung for her by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf . |
| 11 | I remember Lily playing her first solo on a flat-sounding descant recorder made by Dolmetsch and bought for her by her father . |
| 12 | Purchased during that mad shopping trip at Bloomingdales , the minuscule garment in watery shades of blue and green had been by far the most decent item among the swimwear items bought for her by Ross . |
| 13 | Struggling into yet another of the brief garments bought for her by Ross — her trembling fingers fumbling awkwardly with the small scraps of material — Laura dearly wished that she had the courage to chicken out of the whole affair . |
| 14 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 15 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 16 | It is rare to find an elderly person 's home that could not be made much more comfortable , convenient and secure for her by a few carefully planned improvements and adaptations . |
| 17 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 18 | Lucy Telford drove at a steady pace , her mind occupied by the task set for her by Aunt Bertha . |
| 19 | To symbolise her new life , her new role defined for her by the male rule-makers of society , a girl may even be given a new name on marriage . |
| 20 | In the far north-east and Karnchatka a common marriage practice was the residence of the husband in the family of his bride for a certain period of time , in order to pay for her by performing work for the family . |
| 21 | Jabbed by elbows , trodden on , even spat at by an old man , Constance slowly pushed through the crowd , cleaved for her by her unknown protector . |
| 22 | An old lady descends from the black branches of the fire escape every morning and wearily gathers it all up and clambers home with it in paper bags : the food left for her by the birds . |
| 23 | She sorted out the in-tray left for her by Miss Coldharbour : audio tapes for Canon Wheeler , drafts for Miss Coldharbour and a plain manilla folder marked ‘ urgent ’ . |
| 24 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 25 | ‘ Songs were specially composed for her by such distinguished musicians as WSGwynn Williams and Meirion Williams , and she was often referred to as ‘ the second Katherine Ferrier ’ , ’ he said . |
| 26 | She seemed to be eased by talking of her daughter , and by the time she stopped , apologetically , and drank some tea poured for her by Catherine , she looked exhausted but less like a wraith . |
| 27 | The plaintiff drank the ginger beer , and when a second glass was poured for her by her friend a decomposing snail which had been in the bottle floated out . |
| 28 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 29 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |