Example sentences of "[vb past] for [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 2 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 3 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 4 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 5 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 6 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 7 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 8 | A clause inserted by Lord Muncaster reserved for himself the right " at any time during the said 21 yrs " , if he so wished , to become a " partner of ¼ in the concern " by paying a " full part of the expenses from the commencement thereof of working the same … " |
| 9 | This development particularly concerned Soviet leaders , although Egypt reserved for itself the right to exercise sovereign control over these facilities . |
| 10 | In part the debate has been presented as an opposition between a broadly liberal programme — multiculturalism — and an antiracism which claimed for itself the mantle of left radicalism ( Dodgson and Stewart , 1981 ; Mullard , 1984 ; Troyna , 1987a ; Gill and Singh , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 12 | They discovered for themselves the value of taking note of the way pupils write of their school experience ; and by passing unnamed ‘ pupil products ’ around the staff group , they devised a way of cross-checking and standardising the assessment criteria that each was using in grading children 's work . |
| 13 | Behind her dark glasses , she constructed for herself the illusion of security . |
| 14 | Breathlessly she watched for what the moving flags would say next . |
| 15 | It died for me the moment I found Mason in her bed . ’ |
| 16 | When the parents saw for themselves the improvement in their children , their own prejudices were overcome . |
| 17 | I went to Brighton and saw for myself the absence of most of the top players due to other events taking place . |
| 18 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 19 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 20 | The greater the longing he felt for her the more sensible he had tried to be . |
| 21 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 22 | It represented for her the opportunity to move from a life of manual labour to a life of intellectual labour . |
| 23 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 24 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 25 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
| 26 | I conceive of Kant as one saddened by Hume 's cold logic that destroyed for him the laws of causation in the physical world . |