Example sentences of "[det] of [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I only wanted to tell you I 'm really interested in the Foundling babies and I hope to visit some of them for my husband . |
| 4 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 5 | Willie spent the evening with Tom , washing and bottling the blackberries and eating some of them for supper . |
| 6 | I hope you 'll like some of them for your own nearest and dearest . |
| 7 | It was the scarcity of Indian appointments , coveted by so many applicants , which gave such great influence to those politicians able to produce some of them for their friends . |
| 8 | A Valentino dress , a Chanel handbag , £5,000 , a gold American Express card , and some of them for nothing ! |
| 9 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 10 | With the help of a friend and my brother , to date we have fitted about seven full systems , some of them for brokers that I call on . |
| 11 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 12 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 13 | OAG members examined the dumped waste , suspecting that Raybestos was dumping asbestos waste there while being prevented from dumping in Ringaskiddy , and sent some of it for analysis to London . |
| 14 | In America The Hymnal 1980 contains no fewer than 288 examples of service music and it is permissible to reproduce some of it for congregational use . |
| 15 | While fruit and cereals may seem appealing to some of us for breakfast , others may prefer fish or even bacon and tomatoes . |
| 16 | ‘ Outrageous ! ’ was the cry ; ‘ We 've always had our Medau here — Some of us for twenty years ! ’ |
| 17 | When Joan Oswald interviewed some of us for Radio Forth before the Sale , I claimed that no book , not a single paperback even , would be sold beforehand . |
| 18 | She also said she would find out more information about a few of them for me . |
| 19 | There are too few of us for giving orders and biting people . |
| 20 | Apart from joining us for the evening meal and when she ran short of pesetas , we saw little of her for the rest of the holiday . |
| 21 | Each of them for their own private reason needed to live with death at their shoulder . |
| 22 | It is essential to identify all the firm 's clients at the outset and to ensure that the correct form of engagement letter is issued and signed by each of them For example , in an MBO , if our clients are the directors , not the company , each director must sign an engagement letter as an individual or , more commonly , one director , with appropriate authority , can sign for all of them as individuals . |
| 23 | The meeting came within days of separate proposals by each of them for sweeping new reductions in nuclear weapons . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not much of one for looking at things , ’ Harrison said and Hope 's heart went out to him . |
| 25 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 26 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 27 | Nothing could have prepared either of them for what they experienced . |
| 28 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’ |
| 30 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |