Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice !
2 I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me .
3 They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there .
4 I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’
5 For them a central reason for concentrating on civil society lies in the social and emotional significance of the home .
6 For them a systematic process is more plausible and most human resource departments in firms have systematized procedures ( application forms , interview schedules , psychological tests ) to extract theme data at the time a person joins the firm .
7 We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community .
8 The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project .
9 Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper .
10 Of course , this makes fishing for them a challenging business and it is one that absorbs a great many specialist anglers .
11 Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety .
12 And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise .
13 The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted .
14 All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult .
15 Most of them were refugees from East Africa living in substandard conditions and paying exorbitant rents ; for them a second income was desperately needed , and going on strike seemed a dangerous business .
16 The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution .
17 Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone .
18 If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life .
19 Lloyd has ‘ discovered ’ for them a magnificent location in the shape of the old ‘ boat-houses ’ along the Embankment .
20 The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation .
21 We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment .
22 For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes .
23 There was disagreement between the two companies as to whose responsibility would be the making of this towpath , so that in the end they built between them a new bridge just beyond the bottom lock .
24 Between them a small window showed a blank stretch of wall on the other side of the alley .
25 1.3. a Although only 58 institutions provided the full questionnaire , they taught between them a large number of courses .
26 On my first administrative promotion in Buckinghamshire I encountered Geoff Link , for me a new colleague , but also a former teacher .
27 This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks .
28 A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks .
29 Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug .
30 When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work .
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