Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbours complained that 90-year-old Gladys Mills was making too much noise at her flat in Weymouth , Dorset , where she has lived for 12 years . |
| 2 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 3 | MORAG MACDONALD Company secretary at the Post Office , where she has worked for 22 years . |
| 4 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 5 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 6 | Anyone suffering from a mental handicap and who is living in a mental hospital must complete a declaration that he or she wishes to register for the right to vote . |
| 7 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 8 | Following toasts to the University , to Convocation and to our Guests , Mr Orme rounded off the evening by regaling us with some reminiscences of his early days in Parliament , where he has served for Salford West from 1964–1983 and Salford East since 1983 during which time he has held several posts in Government and on the Opposition front bench , and going on to more recent experiences whilst visiting Eastern Europe as the moves towards democracy gathered strength . |
| 9 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 10 | I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share . |
| 11 | It could be an awesome responsibility knowing that someone has died for you . ’ |
| 12 | It might be the proverbial bullet with your name on , or a bunch of cancer cells that someone has ordained for you . |
| 13 | ‘ She is a good little actress although she has opted for the dancing course here . |
| 14 | When she tells us that she left for work , we assume that she has dressed for the outside world . |
| 15 | No she does n't , it 's things that she 's known for years . |
| 16 | As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors . |
| 17 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 18 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 19 | I did , and came to the conclusion that it was the best sauce for lobster ever invented ; and it is extraordinary that it has remained for so long buried in the cookery books . |
| 20 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 21 | Each department acts as if it is the purchaser of another department 's production and then ‘ sells ’ on materials that it has processed for the next stage of production . |
| 22 | So — in the year in which we 've forced the text-centred discipline that is rock writing to incorporate everything that it has excluded for so long ( the relationship between the star 's body and the fan 's , the voice , the materiality of music ) — maybe it 's time to make criticism grapple with what undoes it , ‘ the uncritical ’ itself . |
| 23 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 24 | The Thatcher administration , on the other hand , ‘ do not believe that the community as a whole should continue to pay for all sorts of things that it has paid for in the past … |
| 25 | From the architectural viewpoint the greatest importance of this site , now so excellently opened up and preserved , is that it has preserved for us a provincial Roman city at a certain point in time — A.D. 79 — so that we can see for ourselves the buildings in which such citizens of the empire lived . |
| 26 | While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium . |
| 27 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 28 | The reason being is that it 's copied for formula across , see at the top F eight time E nine , and that formula has gone and recalculated straight away . |
| 29 | The recession has made it take a hard look at the cost of law and at the attitude of big London firms that it 's used for more than fifty years . |
| 30 | The attractiveness of the cultural explanation of religion is that it appears to account for the diversity in religious practices and beliefs without the necessity to get involved in controversy . |