Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her retiral she commented , ‘ I 've enjoyed many rewarding moments through the years and I 'd like to thank everyone for the wonderful send off and beautiful gifts . ’ |
| 2 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 3 | June had asked Hilda Lodge to thank everyone for the lovely flowers sent to her during her recent stay in hospital . |
| 4 | Janice sends very many thanks to everyone for the lovely flowers she received while in hospital recently and thanks also to the super evening she spent at Avery Hill Easter Party . |
| 5 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 6 | Foley said nothing for a good few seconds . |
| 7 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 8 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 9 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 10 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 11 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 12 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 13 | A party that will attempt nothing for the unemployed at home will do nothing for the poor and starving abroad . |
| 14 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 15 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 16 | A party that will attempt nothing for the unemployed at home will do nothing for the poor and starving abroad . |
| 17 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 18 | He had built it out of practically nothing for the local amateur dramatic society and it had sat resplendently on the stage like something fetched straight from the nearest wood , so real , yet with touches of the bizarre , so brown , so greyish , so admired , so solid . |
| 19 | Exactly , they 're trying to screw me for every single penny they can get out of me |
| 20 | But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted . |
| 21 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 22 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 23 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 24 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 25 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 27 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 28 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 29 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |