Example sentences of "[verb] for [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , Sly Spy is just about worth the four brass beer tokens asked for by your friendly computer shop . |
| 2 | They are to be looked for in our Western indigenous psychological explanations as much as in the domains of scientific pursuit which , as Riches notes above , are not themselves free from such ontological conceptions . |
| 3 | She 's very difficult to work for on her creative days ! ’ |
| 4 | The visibility , lower than that of the drier climate of many parts of China , has caused the artist in Japan to be more concerned with the strength of outline than with the subtleties of depth sought for by his Chinese neighbour . |
| 5 | What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system . |
| 6 | Chapman hopes Leeds do better than the Arsenal team he played for in his last European appearance 10 years ago . |
| 7 | Deliberately , the colour has little force , but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety . |
| 8 | This was compensated for by their self-laudatory claims such as : " We have our own team of analysts , and a good research department , etc . " |
| 9 | He lacked social graces and had no small talk but this , to some extent , was compensated for by his unfailing memory . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 11 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 12 | Such an initiative would complement the United Nations arms register called for by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , and such an international responsibility is one that I believe Japan would willingly accept , which is why I commend it to my right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 13 | In this country a hospital accepts and cares for any person who can not be cared for in their own home , but to step into their admission halls is not always the loving experience needed . |
| 14 | With sons they 'd be cared for in their old age , their death rituals would be properly performed and their souls would rest , satisfied . |
| 15 | He had to sell Ebberston in 1848 , thanks to keeping too many racehorses and losing too many bets on them , and he died in London in 1866 , cared for in his last years by a kind and well-endowed lady friend called Elizabeth William . |
| 16 | The majority are cared for by their own families and friends , often at great emotional cost to themselves . |
| 17 | The vast majority are cared for by their own families and friends , often at enormous emotional cost . |
| 18 | The boys and girls are cared for by their own Class Teacher , with specialist teaching in Physical Education and Music . |
| 19 | But when they were made respectable , vouched for by his own father , when they were associated with his own parents , and with his own existence … it was quite different . |
| 20 | Of course sometimes landowners get wildly out of hand and need a bit of a spanking ( other than the one that some already pay for in their strange London clubs ) . |
| 21 | The presence of profoundly deaf children — even though by that stage provided for in their own fairly self-contained class — was held responsible to a considerable degree . |
| 22 | Schoolchildren are entitled to special equipment , but only if it is expressly provided for in their formal statement of needs . |
| 23 | His wife was no help to him , she was a poor , sickly creature , and he had his young sister to care for beside his own boy . |
| 24 | Did you ever hear what the Palmer children girls had for for their twenty first birthday celebration ? |
| 25 | Unhappily the men were sent for from their temporary quarters in the town , and goodbyes were said at the castle . |
| 26 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 27 | His pleas to Mr Kobold for an assistant , even one paid for at his own expense , had fallen upon deaf ears . |
| 28 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
| 29 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 30 | On the ground floor , the extension houses an area for the many periodicals , some of which are paid for by our own library appeal fund . |