Example sentences of "[pron] [det] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 2 | Oh I do n't mind paying you , it 'd cost me that for a bloody taxi . |
| 3 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 4 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 5 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 6 | The library staff can manage on their own for a little while , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 7 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 8 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 9 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 10 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 11 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 12 | Outmoded by the plastics for smaller kites , it comes into its own for the big stuff as , for example , replica Cody man lifters , or the large Baden-Powell ‘ Levitor ’ where , in turn , it replaces the bamboo spars in the original pioneer designs . |
| 13 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 14 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 15 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 16 | ‘ There will be enough wages to keep you all for a few weeks at least , until you have a chance to find another situation . |
| 17 | So here we are at the end of 1992 and I should like to thank you all for the tremendous hard work you have put into it . |
| 18 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 19 | We thank you all for the great success you have all made of the 1985 Appeal . |
| 20 | ‘ May I take this opportunity to thank you all for the good work you are doing and assure you of my prayers . ’ |
| 21 | Finally , my renewed thanks to you all for the generous support you have given to your parishes and the diocese as a whole . |
| 22 | ‘ I know I should n't say anything , but I 've known you both for a long time , and your mother spoiled Dana rotten . |
| 23 | Vasopressin , secreted by both our pituitaries this time , is inhibiting your appetite , preparing you both for the inevitable . |
| 24 | He was like just being an adviser , he was n't like trying to design it , and I looked at it all for a long time and I said Bembo , which I had never heard of . |
| 25 | And you can enjoy it all for the special inclusive tariff of just £199 for two . |
| 26 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |
| 27 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 28 | And the issue was still very much alive , for here beside him , listening alertly and with a dry little smile , was the earl of Leicester , who , whether in earnest or in mischief , was urging a plea of his own for the same prize . |
| 29 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 30 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |