Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 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 .
4 But are there electoral advantages for the opposition to have declared themselves for PR ?
5 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 .
6 My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months .
7 Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’
8 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 .
9 First climbed in 1954 , this classic test-piece had inspired me for decades .
10 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 ) .
11 But he has not taken the word of a wiser man on trust , his private test has confirmed it for him .
12 My winning has done something for them as well as me .
13 Joe Harris , chairman Darlington Licensed Victualler 's Association : ‘ The Chancellor has done nothing for us with this Budget , times are hard enough for publicans .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler .
19 Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia .
20 He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City .
21 His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns .
22 Just as we need the rain forests , the fish need the plants , and only healthy , assimilating plants can do the job nature has designed them for .
23 ‘ This business has knocked her for six . ’
24 A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist !
25 My violin teacher had recommended it for chamber music , and when I found out that on one of the weeks the famous violinist , Ruggiero Ricci , would be there , I was certain that I would go .
26 The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it .
27 The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure .
28 In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States .
29 Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect .
30 Your wife has left you for a continuous period of two years .
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