Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is my responsibility to try to include something for everyone . |
| 2 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 3 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 4 | I 'm not afraid of money but occasionally a writer wants to write something for love and for pleasure |
| 5 | Indeed , 12 promising assistant managers are being selected annually for a development programme designed to prepare them for promotion to general managers . |
| 6 | A reply came thanking us for our letter and saying it is receiving attention . |
| 7 | What 's mummy going to give you for your lunch . |
| 8 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 9 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 10 | But are there electoral advantages for the opposition to have declared themselves for PR ? |
| 11 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 12 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 13 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 14 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 15 | First climbed in 1954 , this classic test-piece had inspired me for decades . |
| 16 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 17 | put my meat in freezer let get it for week |
| 18 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 19 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 20 | But he has not taken the word of a wiser man on trust , his private test has confirmed it for him . |
| 21 | My winning has done something for them as well as me . |
| 22 | Joe Harris , chairman Darlington Licensed Victualler 's Association : ‘ The Chancellor has done nothing for us with this Budget , times are hard enough for publicans . |
| 23 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 24 | If , on the other hand , your boss kept chasing you for ideas and generally putting the pressure on you until he got ideas that he considered satisfactory , then , providing you found the pressure ‘ nasty ’ and its cessation ‘ nice ’ , behaviour of putting forward ideas would also have been reinforced . |
| 25 | Well , dressing the ore means preparing it for market . |
| 26 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 27 | The girl continued shooting him for ten , maybe fifteen seconds . |
| 28 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 29 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 30 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |