Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That money is for my future and for the future of my little girl ! ’ |
| 2 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 3 | Whoever cares for his own safety is lost ; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel that man is safe ( Mark 8:35 ) . |
| 4 | The start that has been made in Shrewsbury , however , is extremely encouraging for my constituency and for the people of Shropshire in general . |
| 5 | Granpa shook his head and frowned , but I was so proud of my dad that for the rest of the day I just strutted around the market by his side . |
| 6 | My mind was n't on my driving and for the first time I almost collided with another taxi . |
| 7 | ‘ When I succeed I will do so for me , for my family and for the people of Britain . ’ |
| 8 | In my judgment and for the reasons which I have given , the challenge based upon the implication of a requirement of natural justice must fail . |
| 9 | Sheila called her GP because for a week Mark had not been feeding properly , had become increasingly drowsy and was vomiting . |
| 10 | The affair was also seized on by opposition politicians as an opportunity to highlight the government 's incompetence and to call for its resignation and for an early general election , in the run-up to the regional elections due in March . |
| 11 | When Ramond de Carbonnières came to Campan , in the later eighteenth century , he saw it as an Arcadia , both for the excellence of its pasture and for the independent spirit of its peasantry , whose self-sufficiency seemed a model to this fundamentally democratic man . |
| 12 | On his saint 's day she summons him into her inmost boudoir , dismisses her girls , permits him to braid her hair and for a moment to fondle her breasts . |
| 13 | It has been held by the European Court of Human Rights that freedom of expression ( Article 10 ) constitutes one of the essential foundations of democratic society , one of the basic conditions for its progress and for the development of every man ( judgment of the Court of 7 December 1976 , Handyside Case , Series A , No.24 ) . |
| 14 | It has observed : " Freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a society , one of the basic conditions for its progress and for the development of every man . |
| 15 | The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) . |
| 16 | He lay at her side and for a long while he did n't speak . |
| 17 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 18 | Which , Dorothea had often thought , they probably were , and really , she had half-envied Alida , not for her independence but for the responsibility she had , and for the pride and satisfaction she was entitled to feel in her work . |
| 19 | All this currying and caring for the body , for its clothing and for the marriage room went on day after day until the wedding night finally arrived . |
| 20 | A strong hand stayed her fall and for a brief instant she was flung against Fen 's chest , his heartbeat quite audible as her breathing seemed suspended . |
| 21 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 22 | Demonstrations of up to 100,000 people before the elections were accompanied by calls from the Azerbaijani People 's Front for their boycott and for a general strike . |
| 23 | Perkin , on her other side , murmured something to get her attention and for a while I watched Tremayne make the best of our table having been graced by the sponsor 's wife , a gushing froth of a lady in unbecoming lemon . |
| 24 | She stuffed her handkerchief into her mouth ; it was large enough to cover her nose and for the faint scent of lavender-water to obliterate the worst of the putrefaction . |
| 25 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
| 26 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
| 27 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 28 | Whilst endowing the local youth department ( Jugendamt ) for the first time with full and central responsibilities for the well-being of children and young people in their area and for the maintenance of high and uniform standards of services , the Act envisages that these responsibilities be discharged through the co-ordination of private and public agencies and organizations . |
| 29 | She was able to warn her manager that for a while she might be a bit slower and occasionally a bit tearful . |
| 30 | It now hardly entered her life except for the time when , in the dark patch of garden below the bedroom window , she had seen the snake . |