Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herluin advanced upon the altar very slowly , as though these few paces , and the climbing of the three steps , must be utilized to the full for prayer , and passionate concentration on this single effort which would make or break for him a dear ambition . |
| 2 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 3 | Be can not marry himself or marry his sons or daughters without leave , nor sell for himself a foal he has foaled , if male . |
| 4 | I conceive of Kant as one saddened by Hume 's cold logic that destroyed for him the laws of causation in the physical world . |
| 5 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 6 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 7 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 8 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 9 | The home provides a safe and secure place for children to ask their biggest questions about faith and to discover for themselves the love of God in Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | He would never dare openly to disobey Smallfry , but he had learned to listen for every shift in her voice-tone and read for himself the most subtle variation in her smile . |
| 11 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 12 | This fact meant that Danzigers had far more opportunity to mull over Nazi propaganda and assess for themselves the extent of the Polish , Communist and Jewish ‘ threats ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Often at loggerheads with Holyoake , Greening , Hughes and other advocates of the ‘ 'bonus to labour ’ and the development of Co-operative Production by means of independent Societies under producers ' control , he was able to impress his personal philosophy of Co-operation upon the Movement and to win for himself a position of recognised leadership . ’ |
| 14 | Entering , I took a glass of white wine from an offered tray , and found for myself a space near a table laden with an unappetising buffet . |
| 15 | Improvisation of any kind typifies Medau accompaniment — it encourages class members to feel and appreciate for themselves the many-sidedness of movement , and learn through aural perception rather than mere visual mimicry . |
| 16 | I went to Brighton and saw for myself the absence of most of the top players due to other events taking place . |
| 17 | On the contrary , I read them as dismantling an old Crown privilege and substituting for it a principle upon which , in certain limited circumstances , the court has a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown as law enforcer . |
| 18 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 19 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 20 | What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ? |
| 21 | She was employed by the parish for twelve hours a week and her nominal duties were to come in on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays , clean the flat , wash and spin dry any linen or articles in the soiled linen basket , and prepare and leave for him a simple lunch on a tray . |
| 22 | He had imposed heavy and illegal exactions upon the forest dwellers , prevented the men of the royal demesnes from having their customary rights of housebote and haybote , and taken for himself the dues for escapes of cattle and other animals in the forest , which rightly belonged to the king . |
| 23 | He was working in the parks just now so he was back in , and apparently he 'd had to go round and baby-sit for them the night before . |
| 24 | WALSINGHAM became a shrine to Our Lady at a difficult time when the Turks overran the Holy Land and stopped pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Nazareth for which the English were already renowned . |
| 25 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 26 | Insofar as they provided cheap goods of low quality for the coolies of eastern countries , who could not afford anything better they performed a service to the world and created for themselves a trade which conformed to their opportunities and resources . |
| 27 | The king 's son feigns all manner of vice , exceeding even Macbeth — but professing for himself a list of vices so horrible that Macduff is forced to exclaim that if he succeeds to the throne , Scotland will receive a far worse tyrant . |
| 28 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |