Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're asking me for secrets of the confessional . ’ |
| 2 | I have this kitchen full of people , all looking to me for instructions like it was me who organized this . |
| 3 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 4 | Paediatricians at any grade are welcome to contact me for names of suitable job sharers or simply for general advice if they already have a colleague with whom they wish to share . |
| 5 | She did n't ask what my plans were , or press me for details of any other potentially embarrassing subject . |
| 6 | A reunion of the ship 's company is to be held in the RNA Club , Leamington Spa , on Saturday , July 3 , and I invite all members to contact me for details on or by letter . |
| 7 | He leaves me for days on end . |
| 8 | And this shows if you give the book out at the end and then what 'll the guy say you wan na give it out at the beginning , sow the seed that this is the only way you work , you 're now thinking well this guy 's gon na be asking me for recommendations at some stage during the hour together |
| 9 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 10 | I used to play with them for hours on end and they tore a big hole in the back of my coat during one rough and tumble . |
| 11 | Without a guide you can follow them for hours without finding your way out of the bush . ’ |
| 12 | In short , restoring ordinary people as part of the we who run things , rather than the them for obstacles to be regulated , managed , I fear even duped and certainly simply left out , and the chief place to focus our search for pragmatic coalitions and cooperative democracy must be in our local communities . |
| 13 | The rushes on the floor were none too clean : hungry wolf-hounds foraged amongst them for bits of food and Corbett heard the squeak and scamper of rats . |
| 14 | Men frequently fear women 's sexual power and feel justified in blaming them for acts of male violence . |
| 15 | Mortimer Cropper 's graduate students were made to transcribe passages — usually from Randolph Henry Ash — transcribe again their own transcriptions , type them up , and then scan them for errors with a severe editorial eye . |
| 16 | If you were prone to feeling miserable , for example , the aim is to prevent feelings of misery rather than to swop them for feelings of ecstasy . |
| 17 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 18 | It would not be difficult to conduct an informal interview with almost anyone , asking them for criticisms of the national health service , the police or the railways , all three of which confer great benefit on the population , for which they do not always receive much credit . |
| 19 | Unlike most clergy houses , which had either too little furniture in them for reasons of poverty or too much from the wrong sort of inheritance , Canon Wheeler 's had just the right amount in the right places . |
| 20 | Loving both Augustus Egg and Pablo Picasso and visiting them for decades under the same roof , I feel sentimental about tearing them asunder forever . |
| 21 | The geologists took the nodules back to the laboratory and soaked them for months in acetic acid . |
| 22 | Mrs Sargent was kind ; she took them for drives in the car . |
| 23 | When we asked them for details about their visit they were very coy . |
| 24 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 25 | I could ask them for details of Dr Kingdom 's visit in November . |
| 26 | They can then use them for withdrawals without worrying about having to take all their money at once . |
| 27 | Those who practise these branches of study often mistake them for spheres of knowledge when they are more accurately seen as examples of dialectic or rhetoric — ideas which may be better aired in talk . |
| 28 | This project was designed to study the feasibility of recruiting unemployed French and German teachers and retraining them for jobs as teachers of their native languages in Uk schools . |
| 29 | Mainly under the influence of Pietro Bembo , the codifier of the Tuscan speech as the literary language of Italy in his Prose della Volgar Lingua ( 1525 ) , there had been an extraordinary revival of interest in Petrarch and the patrons of the frottola-composers , such as the Mantuan Duchess Isabella d'Este , asked them for settings of Petrarch 's sonnets and strophic canzoni . |
| 30 | After more than five years of talks , outstanding difficulties centred on ( i ) whether it could be acceptable under GATT rules for the EC to make direct payments to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies ( a key part of plans to reform the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy ) ; ( ii ) the volume of EC grain exports ; and ( iii ) EC demands for limits on US exports of cereal substitutes to the EC . |