Example sentences of "[pron] for [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for women and children and nowhere for women to go . |
| 2 | That will do nothing for morale and recruitment in Glasgow . |
| 3 | This threw her more passionately on to me for solace and support , but I was losing patience — I did n't know how to cope . |
| 4 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 5 | She came to rely on me for help and support and I am very , very upset . |
| 6 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 7 | She ate me for breakfast and simply disappeared . |
| 8 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 9 | She ca n't wait for me for years and years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've told Myra you 've mistaken me for Dana and that you 're making me go with you to look for Garry , but she 's inclined to discount that — she 's building a romance round us . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't ask me for chapter and verse . |
| 12 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
| 13 | We have applied to them for bonding and may choose to move down that route instead . |
| 14 | Nature displayed in this form beats abstract art hands down ; the pictures are so breathtakingly beautiful that one can wallow in them for hours and quite forget geology . |
| 15 | The idea of using frames in a word processor is , perhaps , a little novel , although Ami Professional uses them for graphics and tables . |
| 16 | But I want to look at them both and I will go through them as well and mark them for spelling and for for your punctuation and everything else . |
| 17 | Developers want to build a holiday village round them for skiiers and other watersport fans . |
| 18 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 19 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 20 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 21 | McMillen , writer at Edin. for Defending the Country against the Sub penas Served against them for Candle and Leather . |
| 22 | McMillen , writer at Edin. for Defending the Country against the Sub penas Served against them for Candle and Leather . |
| 23 | Under the terms of the initial agreement , Thomson-CSF will be able to use the PowerPC architecture to develop digital processing functions for its equipment and will be licensed to manufacture some microprocessors from the PowerPC family and customise them for defence and aerospace applications . |
| 24 | He did some work for A V Roe , erecting aeroplanes and preparing them for test and delivery flights . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co has put a hard hat onto its HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations and brought out a new Posix-compliant HP-RT 1.0 real-time operating system for them for factory-floor and control applications . |
| 26 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 27 | During these early years children form attitudes and perceptions which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will serve them in years to come . |
| 28 | During these early years children form attitudes and perceptions which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will serve them in years to come . |
| 29 | People who do n't know them take them for man and wife . ’ |
| 30 | The patient might tell you what if , if the casualty was still able to talk , they might be able to give you the history of how they became like they were , received a blow , got kicked , fell onto something hard , okay and so on and so on , they might be able to tell you themselves , give some indication , right , you would remove and loosen off all tight clothing , okay , loosen off the clothing for them and then treat them for shock and then refer them to urgent medical attention , nil by mouth on any account , okay ? |