Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Royal Highness , commodores , and members of the Association , may I begin my report by thanking you Ma'am for the time you have given to our sport , for being with us at our Annual General Meeting and for the address you have just delivered . |
| 2 | Found him shelter for the night . |
| 3 | Do n't give them time for the |
| 4 | If Dad was alive he 'd give me money for the bike like a shot . |
| 5 | I 'll give you money for the assassin . |
| 6 | ‘ Hopefully it will give us confidence for the Dundalk match , ’ he told me . |
| 7 | It is they , too , who lend him/her money for the journey and help him/her look for a job in the urban environment . |
| 8 | NEWSAGENTS have rejected a move which would see them campaign for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 9 | ‘ And I want some of you to help me look for the others . |
| 10 | She 'd promised him money for the van , which she would make wearing that bloody badge . |
| 11 | In the meditative life , we exchange the worldly things that give us delight for the full commitment of loving God above all . |
| 12 | So if you had a word with Liz I bet she 'd be delighted to give you permission for the kids to visit the old family home . ’ |
| 13 | Everyone feels healthier there , and so many visitors love the freshness of the high altitude , giving them appetite for the local gratin dishes , the carp and pike , the best butter in the world , light white wines like the Seyssel of Savoy — and of course the famous liqueur , Chartreuse . |
| 14 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 15 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 16 | With an unbeaten 75 off 38 balls in a Sunday League win over Warwicks at Leek in the same week , Adams revealed himself as one of the game 's most destructive young batsmen , and he hopes these innings will earn him consideration for the England ‘ A ’ tour . |
| 17 | West Indies have answered speculation about Viv Richards 's health by naming him captain for the Champions ' Trophy tournament in Sharjah and the Nehru tournament in India . |
| 18 | Which would leave us room for the |
| 19 | This gave them sympathy for the victims of the slave trade and slavery and , as the abolitionist John Bowring stressed , formed a strong bond of union between them . |
| 20 | These changes gave museums the right to retain what they earned , to privatise some of their services such as restaurants , publishing etc , and also gave them responsibility for the maintenance of their buildings . |
| 21 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 22 | He said : it gives me hope for the future of the planet that people can work for a solution to poverty and problems and can enjoy life at the same time . |
| 23 | To beat the World No. 1 , even in an exhibition , gives me confidence for the future . ’ |
| 24 | A source of particular vulnerability for the agencies is that in its reorganization of the water industry the 1973 Water Act gives them responsibility for the management of the great majority of sewage treatment works , which in many areas are themselves significant — often principal — sources of pollution . |
| 25 | Their only hope was to find a farmhouse where a friendly farmer might be able to offer them shelter for the night . |
| 26 | Roffman and Purdy have quite rightly stressed that Vidor 's traditional populism gave him sympathy for the underdog , but prevented him from moving towards any collectivist political situation . |
| 27 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 28 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 29 | They gave us ammunition for the guns , and many people were shot . " |
| 30 | Eagle Star launched it strategy for the older market last April , with a range of special policies sold by a mature salesforce . |