Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 2 | Between them they paid for his training and gave him his start in life . |
| 3 | Educated at Leeds Grammar School , he graduated in classics and divinity at Trinity College , Dublin , in 1904 , after which he taught for two years at a school in West Kirby in Liverpool . |
| 4 | Connolly was sentenced to one day 's imprisonment , after which he applied for a summons against the labour master for alleged assault . |
| 5 | Not after what you did for us . ’ |
| 6 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 7 | King Moshoeshoe , prior to his removal from power , had paid a two-day state visit to Zimbabwe on Oct. 28-29 , 1989 , during which he appealed for aid to help reduce Lesotho 's economic dependence on South Africa . |
| 8 | Paul Parker , the vice-captain , amassed 297 runs in his first three first-class innings , during which he batted for 14 hours . |
| 9 | George Ball , for instance , had two tough and vital sessions with Wilson on 8 – 9 September 1965 , during which he battled for agreement to link American defence of the pound with Britain 's maintenance of her overseas commitments . |
| 10 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 11 | Marxism 's claim to the status of a science proper thus functions as a device to avoid the historicity through which it accounts for other phenomena . |
| 12 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 14 | Stoker then volunteered as unpaid dramatic critic of the Dublin Mail , for which he wrote for five years while retaining his clerkship . |
| 15 | Our Christian motivation is to honour Christ in all we do , including the quality of our work irrespective of whom we work for , whether they are good employers or not . |
| 16 | The supreme dread of everyone who cares for the good of the nation or race is that men should be adrift for want of anchorage for their convictions … |
| 17 | The woman 's hands , he says , are those of someone who works for a living — not those of a lady like Kee . |
| 18 | The twins ' outfits for the panto , two of which they modelled for a preview , have cost £13,500 . |
| 19 | Working within a paradigm , the fundamentals of which they take for granted , they are able to perform the exacting experimental and theoretical work necessary to improve the match between the paradigm and nature to an ever-greater degree . |
| 20 | They had all the grain of which they needed for a good breakfast to finish |
| 21 | There are many more services available from our telephone system — many of which we take for granted . |
| 22 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 23 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 24 | For those of you who remember for his sporting club interests , this picture says it all ! |
| 25 | We are most grateful to those of you who prayed for us on our recent visit to Zimbabwe . |
| 26 | The seventy nine of you who voted for banning hunting , a are you all townees , do you not understand th the fabric of er , of the country ? |
| 27 | Since populism is the antithesis of everything they stand for , it is instructive to see how they have handled that most demotic of forces , television . |
| 28 | He was offered enormous sums to go to South Africa but would never contemplate it ; it would have meant a betrayal of everything he stood for , a soul-selling of Faustian proportions . |
| 29 | He was unsparing of anybody who worked for him . |
| 30 | Having done so , he committed them into the care of Him who cares for all the needy , and knelt to his prayers . |