Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You pay nothing for the cheques you issue , your Debits ; and there is no Maintenance Charge . |
| 2 | he was merely pandering to his feelings did nothing for the children he left behind . |
| 3 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ God forgive me for the thoughts I just thought . ’ |
| 5 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 6 | They derive narcissistic satisfaction from their cultural ideals when they compare themselves with others ; ‘ … the right to despise the people outside it ( their culture ) compensates them for the wrongs they suffer within their own unit ’ . |
| 7 | It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy . |
| 8 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |
| 9 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 10 | One comes across a man who resigned his post because of the grief occasioned by the death of a son ; or another who , from disappointed expectations , turned to drugs and thereby unfitted himself for the offices he coveted . |
| 11 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 12 | And it disturbs you to realise that I did not come after you for the reasons you thought , does n't it ? ’ |
| 13 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 14 | So if we get an idea to do something for the residents we do not need to go through endless red tape in order to get it done . |
| 15 | and the one one for the Libs he only used twenty seconds , twenty two seconds ! |
| 16 | She had butterflies inside , nerving herself for the questions she was about to ask . |
| 17 | As we draw near to him in our distress , we learn to ask him for the things we need . |
| 18 | But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner . |
| 19 | In a negligence suit brought against him Mr Hill wanted to sue his employer to indemnify him for the damages he had to pay out to Mr Gregory . |
| 20 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 21 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 22 | Like Andre Gide , who when young expected people to admire him for the books he would write in the future , Charlie came to love being appreciated in several high streets for his potential . |
| 23 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 24 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 25 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 26 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 27 | There are all kinds and levels of faith but only one God who will accept or reject us for the lives we live today . |