Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 2 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 3 | Laura wore a long , grey satin dress with a big bow which was especially made for her in a more girlish style than she normally allowed herself . |
| 4 | If you are successful there will be much work for you in the future . ’ |
| 5 | Yes you normally pay for it in the following year . |
| 6 | There will be a few overcast or windless days when the batteries will not be adequately recharged and a traditional generator will have to be called upon , but in the time they are charging , wind generators and solar panels will easily pay for themselves in saved fuel costs . |
| 7 | According to Cara , who had accommodation already reserved for them in a hotel in Mariánské Láznë , they should reach their destination by about mid-afternoon . |
| 8 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 9 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 10 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 11 | Mark Pitman says the horse has done more for him than he can ever do for it in return … he 's a good performer |
| 12 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 13 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 14 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 15 | Back in Ockleton 's rooms at Breakspear , seated by a roaring fire and sipping finer port than he could ever recall tasting , he had asked Ockleton to explain his reaction earlier to Harry 's revelation that Alan Dysart had once worked for him in Swindon . |
| 16 | Lou went along with him for every show , with a place always reserved for her in the front row . |
| 17 | I 'm still lost for what in effect is the answer to Mr 's question . |
| 18 | Those involved with ACET are now helping provide home care for one in four of all those dying with AIDS in the UK and up to 4,000 school pupils a month are now receiving education on the subject . |
| 19 | The landowner 's agent may also act for him in negotiations with conservationists and engineers to secure the parcels of riverside land required for habitat protection and enhancement . |
| 20 | Parliament must be well aware of the great burden that is imposed on senior ministers , who not only take charge of their departments but also speak for them in Parliament , attend meetings of the Cabinet and its committees , and see to their constituency affairs if they are members of the House of Commons . |
| 21 | Tony 's successful partnership with Steve Kember was a key reason for our 1969 promotion to Division One , and for our subsequent continued presence there , but Tony also played for us in a variety of positions , from attacking winger on his debut , to left-back . |
| 22 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 23 | He 'd probably die for it in the end . |
| 24 | From a democratic point of view this would , of course , be no improvement if the will of the Protestant minority then similarly counted for nothing in that larger context . |
| 25 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 26 | The central objective was to establish the kinds of actions and organisations that people typically make for themselves in this kind of social and spatial environment . |
| 27 | I often fear for you in many ways , quite unreasonably it may be . |
| 28 | I was retiring and he was coming through at eighteen , nineteen , and erm twelve years later , he 's now driving for me in Grand Prix racing . |
| 29 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 30 | After only three years we are now caring for one in four of those dying with AIDS in the UK . |