Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 2 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
| 3 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 4 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 5 | On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled . |
| 6 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 7 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 8 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 9 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 10 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 11 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |
| 12 | It was obviously advantageous to record those events and the aftermath as quickly as possible to preserve them for the benefit of those who came after us . |
| 13 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 14 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 15 | THEY WILL INFLUENCE ME FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS . |
| 16 | They will influence me for the rest of my days . |
| 17 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 18 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 19 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 20 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 22 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 23 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 24 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 25 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 28 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 29 | Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks . |
| 30 | We must prepare ourselves for the possibility that the situation for homosexual women and men will also worsen in our own countries . |