Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 2 | You pay nothing for the cheques you issue , your Debits ; and there is no Maintenance Charge . |
| 3 | Nothing for the archives and nothing that could be sold off , this bric-a-brac had obviously been stored against the possibility of some surviving and previously untraced relative appearing to claim it . |
| 4 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 5 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 6 | The court heard Edmunds initially took 10 per cent of the earnings but with nothing for the Sunsets . |
| 7 | he was merely pandering to his feelings did nothing for the children he left behind . |
| 8 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 9 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ God forgive me for the thoughts I just thought . ’ |
| 11 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 12 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry , modom , do n't blame me for the shortages . |
| 14 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 15 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 16 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 17 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 18 | They derive narcissistic satisfaction from their cultural ideals when they compare themselves with others ; ‘ … the right to despise the people outside it ( their culture ) compensates them for the wrongs they suffer within their own unit ’ . |
| 19 | Congratulate them for the things that they are good at . |
| 20 | Have you checked whether their grammar book really prepared them for the complexities of communication ? |
| 21 | Maurice Ododo is the catechist at Aluor mission and every day was busy going near and far training and teaching the Christians , preparing them for the Sacraments and instructing catechumens . |
| 22 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 23 | These applications and others like them for the microprocessors have growing importance in the Third World . |
| 24 | It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy . |
| 25 | As part of this exercise we will perform a ‘ practice run ’ with the company 's executives to check the areas where they will be asked questions and to prepare them for the meetings with would be acquirors . |
| 26 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 27 | But whereas Edouard loved cars for their design , and their beauty , and collected them on that basis , Grégoire loved them for the engines under their gleaming bonnets . |
| 28 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |
| 29 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 30 | Leech was examined on 18th August 1669 to see if he was able " to instruct the youth so far as to fit them for the universities " by a panel composed of Dr. Slater , Mr. Watson ( Schoolmaster of Sutton 's Hospital ) , Mr. Holmes ( Schoolmaster of Christ 's Hospital ) , and Mr. Crumland ( a master from St. Paul 's ) . |