Example sentences of "[verb] for [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she could be brought to view his actions in his own light , he would remain for her the instrument of death . |
| 2 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 3 | I mean I 'm I mean for me the issues is avoiding guilt tripping them , but at the same time erm I want them to know erm that they are real children who are being really affected and hurt and damaged and losing their parents as a result of this war , and that is a hurtful thing to know . |
| 4 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 5 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 6 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 7 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 8 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 9 | Make him fit the bill ; imagine for him the attributes that you require . |
| 10 | But she knew , morning person or not , if Fen only felt for her the way she felt for him , she would happily be up at half-past three or even earlier , just to be with him . |
| 11 | Maggie 's room , her own place , had been made for her the summer she was eight by Phoebe , Paul and Uncle Wong . |
| 12 | 1 You have prepared for us the script for ten episodes of a video entitled — . |
| 13 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |
| 14 | Thus , the Report refers to " English in the highest sense " as " the channel for formative culture for all English people , and the medium of the creative art by which all English writers of distinction , whether poets , historians , Philosopher , or men of science , have secured for us the power of realising some part of their own experience of life " . |
| 15 | But its possession , the sight and weight of it on her key ring , had come to symbolize for her the certainty and the trust of their friendship . |
| 16 | Working directly from nature , he was admired by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ( attending their ‘ house-warming ’ at Newman Street on 12 January 1850 ) ; he was a great friend of Ford Madox Brown [ q.v. ] , mentioned frequently in Brown 's diaries ; and D. G. Rossetti [ q.v. ] was instrumental in securing for him the patronage of the important Newcastle collector James Leathart in the 1860s . |
| 17 | It does n't work for her the mistress of the moment of sudden isolation at not seeing back to the black magician who fantastically juggles luminous hoops in the recto-rectangular hey put my mirror back . |
| 18 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 19 | This is at best a corrective belief , for whatever else Ulysses or The Waste Land are doing , they are also invoking for us the Dublin of 1904 or the London of 1921 . |
| 20 | ‘ I began to yearn for you the moment you left , ’ he told her in return . |
| 21 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 22 | This was her first big opportunity to reply to the barrage of criticism and , as she saw it , ingratitude which had marred for her the celebration last May of her 10 years in office . |
| 23 | erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost . |
| 24 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 25 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 26 | Publications in the 1960s , such as Honest to God and Toward a Quaker View of Sex , represented for her the encroachment or infiltration of a new moral orthodoxy into the Church itself . |
| 27 | It died for me the moment I found Mason in her bed . ’ |
| 28 | I mean if he was hung , drawn and quartered he still could n't pay for it the suffering he 's gon na cause . |
| 29 | Otherwise Toby was father , mother and elder brother to the boys , and on the whole he enjoyed himself , creating for them the home he felt he had never had himself . |
| 30 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |