Example sentences of "[pron] for the [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 2 | But , up until now , they have offered nothing for the budget or ‘ entry level ’ guitar market . |
| 3 | ‘ There are tons of leaflets for offenders , but nothing for the witness or the ordinary member of the public , ’ says Ms Reeves . |
| 4 | A good reputation will be merely a means to winning what I want from others ; I shall care nothing for the respect or contempt of people who can not help or ham me , and find no pleasure in the prospect of millions seeing my face on television or reading my books after I am dead . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We already have a car , motor cycle and bicycle lined up , but we need someone for the bus and train . |
| 13 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
| 16 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But we already had plenty for the pan and the freezer too . |
| 19 | The built heritage of South and West Wales in Cadw 's care includes fascinating prehistoric , Roman , medieval and historic industrial sites — enough to capture the interest of all ages and plenty for the general and specialist visitor to enjoy . |
| 20 | Thank you for the prompt and efficient service given so far and I hope this is an indication of the quality of supervision that we can expect . |
| 21 | and sharpened up with typical 20th-century cynicism by the American lyricist Stephen Sondheim : I 've got those " God why do n't you love me , oh you do I 'll see you later " blues , That " long as you ignore me , you 're the only thing that matters " feeling , That " if I 'm good enough for you , you 're not good enough " And " thank you for the present but what 's wrong with it ? " stuff . |
| 22 | This set-up program will prompt you for the directory and hard disk where you want to install Money Smith , then sit back while the program does the rest . |
| 23 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 24 | Erm , Chair , delegates thank you for the welcome and thank you for the invitation to speak to you . |
| 25 | We thank you for the patience and good humour you have all shown during a difficult time . |
| 26 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 27 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |
| 28 | Do you leave it off even though you 're paying , you 'll be paying wo n't you for the heating and it 's |
| 29 | You can bring notes with you for the talk but you should avoid reading them to your audience . |
| 30 | As you know erm we , we take the money here we do n't charge you for the talk but we give ten percent back to your W I so it 's a self funding situation . |