Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 2 | Most fish would not be seriously affected by temperatures somewhat outside this range especially if only exposed to them for a short time . |
| 3 | It 's only lent to me for a week |
| 4 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 5 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 6 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 7 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 8 | Cadogan says ferried to question this man till he 's dry , question him to death if necessary , but I 've already spoken to him for hours . |
| 9 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 10 | Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects . |
| 11 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 12 | The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time . |
| 13 | The influence of Kant 's aesthetic theory on the forgoing of immediate pleasure is clear and explicit ; Simmel states that ‘ We desire objects only if they are not immediately given to us for our use and enjoyment ; that is , to the extent that they resist our desire ’ ( 1978 : 66 ) . |
| 14 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 15 | she ca n't write now , I have n't written to her for weeks |
| 16 | I have n't written to you for ages have I ? |
| 17 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 18 | I have n't spoken to them for nearly two weeks . ’ |
| 19 | We have n't spoken to them for a while ? |
| 20 | The C.C.P.R. has done much to help the Society and other Organisations establish themselves , and Festival Producer Olive Newson is well known to us for her encouragement and help . |
| 21 | The official table of appointments in 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which lasted until it was slightly modified by Catherine 's son Paul in 1800 , provided for each mission abroad to have two students regularly attached to it for these purposes . |
| 22 | I have n't listened to it for ages . |
| 23 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 24 | Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’ |
| 25 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 26 | Since , as we shall see later , a large number of appeals are actually delegated to them for decision , they are an important part of the process . |