Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 2 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 3 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 4 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 5 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 6 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 7 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 8 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 9 | Yeah but Arthur she only takes after you for that . |
| 10 | Then I 'd be looking after you for both products and what I want to do is have a look at all the standard bearings you take to see if there is potential for a supply . |
| 11 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 12 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 13 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 14 | Ace followed her , prudently shutting the big sliding glass doors after him for more privacy . |
| 15 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 16 | Do you think less of me for that ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
| 18 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 19 | ‘ I am very proud of them for that , ’ she added . |
| 20 | If the injured trio — or even one of them for that matter — miss the game , Rangers may have to rely on goalkeeper Andy Goram more than ever . |
| 21 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 22 | And that 's that 's it that 's the pattern for all of them for all those four reactions . |
| 23 | Never a word of thanks from any of them for all we 've done . |
| 24 | I mean there might be millions of them for all we know , but we ca n't find them using our system of maths , cos ours does not allow division by zero . |
| 25 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 26 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 27 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 28 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 29 | He had known most of them for half a lifetime . |
| 30 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |