Example sentences of "[pron] for the [adj] [noun] " 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 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 6 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 7 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 8 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 9 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 10 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 11 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 12 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 13 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 14 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 15 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 16 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 17 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 18 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 19 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 20 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 21 | However , the number of applications received by him/her for the single fields depends on the ranking . |
| 22 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 23 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 24 | If I present my ideas in writing , my father marks them for the appropriate offices … |
| 25 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 26 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 27 | Between 1947 and 1952 he produced no less than 300 short films , many of them for the Canadian Government , and on these merits he was appointed Director of Outside Broadcasts , Features and Documentaries with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1952 . |
| 28 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 29 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 30 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |