Example sentences of "[pron] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WOULD like to thank everyone for their tremendous efforts in selling draw tickets this year . |
| 2 | Thank you again everyone for your individual efforts last year . |
| 3 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 4 | Though applicants had to demonstrate financial soundness and programming ability , they paid nothing for their regional monopolies , which guaranteed them a share of the £1 billion-plus ( $1.95 billion ) of television advertising sold in Britain each year . |
| 5 | It is interesting that he talks of people getting nothing for their additional contributions in the very week when the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) writes an article in a magazine in praise of the contributory principle — indeed , in praise of Beveridge in this the 50th anniversary of his excellent proposals . |
| 6 | The faint aroma of stale mackerel still hung around and did nothing for our personal charisma either . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a figment of the imagination by those who want to dominate ITV , who care nothing for our regional character and who seek to shift control of our operations from Cardiff and Bristol to London or Birmingham . |
| 8 | Long , unkempt hair , several missing teeth , and a nose that looked as if it had met more than one fist in its owner 's lifetime did nothing for his general appearance . |
| 9 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 10 | ‘ Blaming me for your own inadequacy . ’ |
| 11 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 12 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 14 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 15 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 16 | Aunt Anna gave it to me for my tenth birthday . |
| 17 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 18 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 19 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 20 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 21 | Each of them seeks to use me for his own ends . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll thank me for it one day : pelvic control is useful when you 're having a baby . ’ |
| 23 | Do you a lot of good , you 'll thank me for it one day . |
| 24 | By and large , the above are ‘ natural source ’ materials , with little or no attempt to balance the NPK content , and you will need to take this into account when you use them for whatever particular bias they give . |
| 25 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 26 | Mr Dorrell continued : ’ In the past the Inland Revenue has , I am told , felt able to accept that the allowances paid to volunteers did no more than reimburse them for their actual expenses . |
| 27 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 28 | Rather : ‘ The business interests of the nation as a whole are subordinated to those of certain sectional interests that usurp control of the national resources and use them for their private gain . ’ |
| 29 | Certain names wish to withdraw these funds from Lloyd 's , as not being within the terms governing their premium trust funds , in order to use them for their personal benefit . |
| 30 | But none of the larger firms has done so yet , so the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that either they prefer to live dangerously or they still do n't believe that anyone would actually go after them for their personal assets . |