Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ . |
| 2 | A 1st class stamp costs 24p and the ease of phoning versus the traipse to the letter box wins hands down for me every time . |
| 3 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | My sleeping-bag would hold two — like the one in For Whom the Bell Tolls . |
| 5 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |
| 6 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
| 7 | All these rights , reasonable in themselves , become unreasonable if you insist on standing up for them every time they are infringed . |
| 8 | The purpose of RE is to help them genuinely to reflect upon religion , opening up for them the possibility of a self-chosen and real commitment , religious or otherwise , so that the individual can freely play his or her role in the wider community , whether this be the faith community or society as a whole . |
| 9 | A small dish of it comes up for her every day . |
| 10 | But if you are tactful in your approach in this touchy area , you may be able , slowly and Patiently , to build up for her a picture of a sample programme of meals for a seven-day period that would be low in cost and effort but reasonably tasty and nutritionally adequate . |
| 11 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 12 | JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team . |
| 13 | The university opened up for me a freedom I never knew existed . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know anyone else would stick up for me the way you do . ’ |
| 15 | You conjured up for me the legions of the unborn , and I found them as grisly a sight as the legions of the dead . |
| 16 | And I 've already fixed up a local lass to come and clean up for you every day . ’ |
| 17 | There had been , for one thing , enormous population growth I 'll put the figures up for you The population had roughly trebled er between seventeen hundred and eighteen fifty and then , in the period we 're primarily concerned with here , the hundred years from eighteen fifty to nineteen fifty have increased from four hundred and thirty million up to five hundred and eighty million . |
| 18 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 20 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 21 | The females play a dominant role , marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds . |
| 22 | Answer guide : This is something the student has not been exposed to 80 it is useful to let them discuss how they would treat the transaction in detail so they can work out for themselves the principles involved . |
| 23 | Even the sight of Little Chef and the ponies longingly looking out for her every morning did n't make him relent . |
| 24 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 25 | Otto had been true to his word and left out for me a pair of boy 's shorts . |
| 26 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 27 | Find out for whom the rhododendrons were planted . |
| 28 | Therefore , each church must work out for itself the best way and time to measure ‘ membership ’ which most accurately and helpfully reflects their situation . |
| 29 | In effect , landlords have clawed back for themselves an increasing proportion of rate relief on premises within enterprise zones . |
| 30 | It 's worth shopping around for one a few years old , after the initial sharp depreciation ( which can be as much as 70% over three years ) has levelled . |