Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] for [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 2 | They 've got all his tablets sorted for him for coming home . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been beating the bushes looking for you for hours ! ’ |
| 4 | Since politicians anyway now speak words written for them by androids , why should these glittering extras demand speaking parts ? |
| 5 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 6 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 7 | This research aims to investigate how such factors shape the way this key group of employees are responding to their labour market situation and the career opportunities provided for them within high technology firms . |
| 8 | After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio . |
| 9 | His friendship with Polanski developed , and he and Robert Evans were to have major roles reserved for them in Nicholson 's life , personal and career . |
| 10 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 11 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 12 | ‘ Yesterday morning , at Shellerton House , Mr Tremayne Vickers and young Mr and Mrs Perkin Vickers all told me they 'd spent three or four hours looking for you on Monday night . |
| 13 | Now erm all the gifts that you give at Confirmation the whole idea of Confirmation in well one of the main ideas of Confirmation is taking on board for yourself what your parents promised for you in baptism . |
| 14 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 15 | Like any actor who has to play many different parts , all Reagan wanted were a few good lines written for him on cue cards that he could quote without having to tax his own abilities . |
| 16 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 17 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 18 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 19 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 20 | A writ has been issued by the actress and her parents asking for him to be banned ‘ from entering or trespassing on the property or on the actual road ’ . |
| 21 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 22 | In principle the Central Authority could also delegate some of the functions reserved for it in the Electricity Act . |
| 23 | Decentralization fragments the scope of radical change and raises the thresholds required for it to be achieved , a maxim which constitutional and administrative designers take seriously in many liberal democracies . |
| 24 | ‘ Preston , I was two hours waiting for you in that porch . |
| 25 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 26 | Many of the records were based on collections made for him by W. S. Duncan , who lived in the islands ( Campbell , op. cit . ) . |
| 27 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 28 | That day of days shines for me in time , |
| 29 | They enjoyed the special places reserved for them in the synagogues which were in full view of the congregation . |
| 30 | As religious advisor to the radio station he gets birthday requests played for them during Sunday morning broadcasts . |