Example sentences of "[pron] for the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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1 | 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 … |
2 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 ’ . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | We already have a car , motor cycle and bicycle lined up , but we need someone for the bus and train . |
9 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
12 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But we already had plenty for the pan and the freezer too . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Erm , Chair , delegates thank you for the welcome and thank you for the invitation to speak to you . |
19 | We thank you for the patience and good humour you have all shown during a difficult time . |
20 | 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 … . ‘ |
21 | ‘ 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 . |
22 | Do you leave it off even though you 're paying , you 'll be paying wo n't you for the heating and it 's |
23 | Then you bring your ladder that you 've brought with you for the job and you put it up leaning on this windowsill , so that essentially if that 's the windowsill the end of that table there , it 's up to here you see with the top of the ladder just above the windowsill . |
24 | Thank you for the impact and clarity of your Car Chaos ( NI 195 ) . |
25 | ‘ One is that , like I said , I could probably frame you for the kiosk and the burglary . |
26 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |
27 | Well , he 's going to do something for the programme and I 'm doing something for TSB . |
28 | ‘ There are four , ’ Sir Richard explained , ‘ one for the front , one for the back and one for each side of the cart . |
29 | In the case of electrodynamics , it was necessary to make two such infinite subtractions , one for the mass and the other for the charge of the electron . |
30 | I won one for the poem and one for the song . |