Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 2 | However , the number of applications received by him/her for the single fields depends on the ranking . |
| 3 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 4 | If I present my ideas in writing , my father marks them for the appropriate offices … |
| 5 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 6 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 7 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 8 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 9 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 10 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 11 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) . |
| 13 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 14 | Many people , both men and women , take up kung fu , not all of them for the same reasons . |
| 15 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 16 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 17 | Cheers ( Channel 4 ) CHEERS and thank you for the many memories . |
| 18 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 19 | To all my brothers and sisters who took the time to visit and send cards when I was ill , thank you for the encouraging words and scripture . |
| 20 | Thank you for the little thoughts of avoiding the things that might upset me . |
| 21 | Thank you for the beautiful flowers . |
| 22 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 23 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 24 | Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend . |
| 25 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 26 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 27 | I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal . |
| 28 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 29 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 30 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |