Example sentences of "[pron] [det] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 2 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |
| 3 | Oh I do n't mind paying you , it 'd cost me that for a bloody taxi . |
| 4 | you owe me that for a year . |
| 5 | And when I erm , first got them cos my granny got me some for a birthday present |
| 6 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 7 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 8 | It 's nothing , I was off on a track of my own for a moment . |
| 9 | I remember when I was on my own for a couple of years , and had a great time … but then you find yourself slipping into this feeling of being v-e-r-y lonely indeed . ’ |
| 10 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 11 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
| 12 | In popularizing this slogan Labour was enormously aided by widespread resentment against ‘ profiteers ’ — a word universally used during the war to describe the conduct of shipowners , food wholesalers , arms contractors , landlords and all the other ‘ Brit-Huns ’ who were said to be exploiting wartime scarcities to line their own pockets while workers and soldiers loyally gave their all for the war effort . |
| 13 | For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show . |
| 14 | Oh its all for the fantasy , one suspects |
| 15 | The Broadcasting Bill removes constraints on European companies wanting to own television companies or bid on their own for a Channel 3 franchise . |
| 16 | Nigel asked Eleanor round once more and they were left on their own for a while . |
| 17 | During the time when negotiations with Southwark were still continuing , the Age Concern Research Unit ( ACRU ) had been approached by service-providers ( the consultant psychogeriatrician , the social services department and the local Age Concern organiser ) in Ipswich , Suffolk , with some ideas of their own for a project on the elderly mentally frail . |
| 18 | The library staff can manage on their own for a little while , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 19 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 20 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 21 | This little band of Medau enthusiasts decided on a little fund-raising of their own for the team and on 18 May held a sponsored ball bounce . |
| 22 | If there is n't a collection though , an official one , they 'll have one of their own for the |
| 23 | If you have an entertainer , this is not likely to happen , unless you explain that you do not mind if he or she just lets the party run on its own for a while . |
| 24 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 25 | Apart from the 2.5 litre for the diesel Scorpio which is bought from PSA , Ford produces its own for the Fiesta , Escort , Orion , and Sierra . |
| 26 | Outmoded by the plastics for smaller kites , it comes into its own for the big stuff as , for example , replica Cody man lifters , or the large Baden-Powell ‘ Levitor ’ where , in turn , it replaces the bamboo spars in the original pioneer designs . |
| 27 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 28 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 29 | Solar heating does come into its own for the fairly specialised use of heating water for swimming pools and can make a contribution to heating the domestic hot water . |
| 30 | ‘ Just that she wanted to he on her own for a bit . ’ |