Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sophie said nothing for a minute and then she said : ‘ On a plane to see Lizzie ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 3 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 4 | K : ‘ He took me for a pizza and we got on brilliantly from then . ’ |
| 5 | My father stopped , looked at me for a bit and then said that in the circumstances I could go out that night — providing I milked the cows first . |
| 6 | We had many chats and on several occasions I had him join me for a sandwich and coffee at the Georgia Grill . |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Fitch took Edward and me for a walk and we gathered stones and pebbles . |
| 8 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 9 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 10 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 11 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 12 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 13 | Last time Roger was outside waiting for me for an hour and a half |
| 14 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 15 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 16 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 17 | He shook our hands , holding them for a moment and laughing softly . |
| 18 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 19 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 20 | It is inflated by the feeling that it should be large enough to " vindicate " plaintiffs by showing the world that their names deserve respect , and perhaps even larger to " console " them for the insult and injury of having their names taken in vain by circulation-grabbing newspapers . |
| 21 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll send someone for a blanket and we 'll get her there in no time at all . ’ |
| 23 | So far , I have a car driver and a motor cyclist and I 'm looking for someone for the bus and train , and possibly taxi . |
| 24 | We already have a car , motor cycle and bicycle lined up , but we need someone for the bus and train . |
| 25 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 26 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 27 | Undismayed , he haled an old man out of the audience , stuck him in the chair , and then spoke himself for an hour and answered all the questions . |
| 28 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
| 29 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 30 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |