Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 2 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 3 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 4 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 5 | Apart from joining us for the evening meal and when she ran short of pesetas , we saw little of her for the rest of the holiday . |
| 6 | Hollywood 's worst in the movie line has recruited hundreds of them for the gangs of race-course roughs , motor bandits , and smash-and-grab thieves . ’ |
| 7 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 8 | Land expert at the Trust , Simon Potts says he welcomes the call for farmers to sell land at near agricultural prices , but admits there 's not much to be built , not much in it for the landowners themselves . |
| 9 | ‘ No one has made it his own and that 's why the sleectors have chosen three of us for the training trip to Lanzarote . |
| 10 | She informed me that a double room at the front was available , though I was welcome to it for the price of a single . |
| 11 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 12 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 13 | Our Airbus unloading ( or leading ) 300 souls creates a weekly chaotic scrum ; it 's all worth it for the short onward journey to resort . |
| 14 | Many people , both men and women , take up kung fu , not all of them for the same reasons . |
| 15 | It remains a holy city for Muslims , Christians and Jews , all of whom for the very best of reasons — they are the good guys — have slaughtered each other within its walls . |
| 16 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West said , by the end of the decade , they will unilaterally have slashed £12 billion from the value of SERPS , transferring funds paid in by all of us for the future into private funds run solely for the benefit of the few . |
| 17 | But I think realistically that 's probably enough work for all of us for the rest of the week . |
| 18 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
| 19 | Between 1947 and 1952 he produced no less than 300 short films , many of them for the Canadian Government , and on these merits he was appointed Director of Outside Broadcasts , Features and Documentaries with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1952 . |
| 20 | ‘ These are vital training opportunities many of them for the most disadvantaged young people , ’ he added . |
| 21 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 23 | Prime amongst them for the IBM PC and its compatibles are 123 from Lotus Development , Multiplan from Microsoft , Smart from Innovative Software and Supercalc from Sorcim . |
| 24 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 'm talking too much — it 's having you all to myself for the first time . ’ |
| 26 | Many of those involved had reached the conclusion that the philanthropic provision of youth services was inadequate by itself for the task of tackling the economic , social , and what were coming to be regarded as educational problems concerning working-class adolescents . |
| 27 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 28 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 29 | There was an overwhelming case for the State providing a basic pension but less of one for the State providing an additional pension as well . |
| 30 | ‘ The safest place in the world … and the world is where we 'll go for our honeymoon , because I 'm determined to get that travel bug out of you so you 'll stay safe and happy with me for the rest of our lives ! ’ |