Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.

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1 He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after .
2 Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting .
3 I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken .
4 Two you had off me for the fete .
5 If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins .
6 In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week .
7 A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy .
8 Bénéteau will build a maxi for them for the race .
9 It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients .
10 And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years .
11 Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost .
12 ‘ But it means you work for me for the rest of your life to pay me back . ’
13 for me for the C E D G to have a combined BES Works
14 Peel the patates for me for the soup , she said : and I 'll keep the pan of choux mixture for you to lick .
15 Smart Drive going in , the new Smart Drive p p presumably it will put my mouse driv my new mouse driver in for me for the day when I want one ?
16 Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues .
17 Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday .
18 As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race .
19 ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply .
20 Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections .
21 Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored .
22 As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months .
23 ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’
24 He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager .
25 I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes .
26 He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt .
27 Two 900MWe simulators are in operation at the training centre at Bugey ; four more will be in service by 1984 , two of them for the 1300MWe units .
28 Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories .
29 Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever .
30 These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole .
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