Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] for [pron] [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 Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments .
3 Although no evidence of his activities before 1643 survives , we know that by then he had married , had established a house and warehouse at Leadenhall Street , and had brought over many of his relatives to work for him in England .
4 Often the vendors and the purchasers each appoint a firm of chartered accountants to act for them in determining the relevant amount and reference to a third accountant occurs only if the two firms can not agree on that amount .
5 There is at least one instance of an aedile of a pagus , although we might suspect that the praefectus pagi of the Gallic Epotes lies outside the normal run of local government officials , though it must be remembered that magistrates could appoint prefects to act for them in their absence .
6 I ask you dear friends to pray for me in this area for guidance , finance and I will seek his will in everything . ’
7 The state should give substantial financial inducements to mothers of pre-school children to care for them at home ; because of the economic situation , this may , to begin with , have to be on a sliding scale according to need .
8 He had abandoned it and taken the flowers to speak for themselves at her bedside , but she did not hear them .
9 He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships .
10 He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships .
11 Can staff arrange for others to work for them at times of crisis ?
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