Example sentences of "[pron] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 2 | June had asked Hilda Lodge to thank everyone for the lovely flowers sent to her during her recent stay in hospital . |
| 3 | Janice sends very many thanks to everyone for the lovely flowers she received while in hospital recently and thanks also to the super evening she spent at Avery Hill Easter Party . |
| 4 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 5 | However , the number of applications received by him/her for the single fields depends on the ranking . |
| 6 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 7 | If I present my ideas in writing , my father marks them for the appropriate offices … |
| 8 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 9 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 10 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 11 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 12 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 13 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 14 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 16 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 17 | Many people , both men and women , take up kung fu , not all of them for the same reasons . |
| 18 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 19 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 20 | In the media which are also visual , a range of resources — physical appearance and the effective means of non-verbal communication — is at least added to the written or recorded form , and the effect is often more than addition ; it is a change of dimension which appears to restore presence , which for the alternative advantages of record and durability writing systems had moved away from . |
| 21 | ‘ I square up onto a prepared board which for the larger paintings is medium density fibreboard , or MDF , half an inch thick which I have primed on both sides . |
| 22 | Maxim instinctively smiled at him , then despised himself for the silly band-of-brother-soldiers stuff . |
| 23 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 24 | AND PLENTY FOR THE LITTLE DUDES TOO |
| 25 | Cheers ( Channel 4 ) CHEERS and thank you for the many memories . |
| 26 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 27 | To all my brothers and sisters who took the time to visit and send cards when I was ill , thank you for the encouraging words and scripture . |
| 28 | Thank you for the little thoughts of avoiding the things that might upset me . |
| 29 | Thank you for the beautiful flowers . |
| 30 | In the urge to protect itself for the negative battles of the present , the party thus pulled back from its only truly positive policy for the future . |