Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 2 | I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’ |
| 3 | The standing back approach Someone phones you for a price for a project . |
| 4 | If someone asks you for a tale , tell them you 're learning the story of the Dwarf and the Firewood . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 6 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 7 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 8 | Another novelty is the secure access feature , which prompts you for a password when it auto-answers an incoming data . |
| 9 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 10 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 11 | ‘ But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field . |
| 12 | ‘ Who holds it for the Empress ? ’ |
| 13 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 14 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 15 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 16 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
| 17 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 18 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 19 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 20 | You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people |
| 21 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 22 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 23 | It covers me for the preparation work to an industrial tribunal . |
| 24 | Mm , so what if could erm , could come up with a policy , that you pay your premiums in , but it covers you for the whole of your life . |
| 25 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 26 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 27 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 28 | ‘ He blames him for the press not being here , ’ Celia said . |
| 29 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 30 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |