Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , pupils will have the opportunity to discover for themselves the reasons for their beliefs , values and opinions . |
| 2 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 3 | From its foundation in 1855 , Hope had various professional journalists to assist him as joint editors , and its sharp , sardonic style of comment and outspokenness acquired for it the nickname ‘ The Saturday Reviler ’ . |
| 4 | Starlight and glow-worm light captured for me the simplicity of this joy . |
| 5 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 6 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 7 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 8 | And the Rechem case comes to Scotland as the Judge sees for himself the former factory . |
| 9 | Lucy Honeychurch 's generation are trying to assert their right to choose for themselves the path of their lives . |
| 10 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 11 | Though Conrad 's Narcissus runs it close , Crime and Punishment remains for me the most accessible and exciting novel in the world . |
| 12 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 13 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 14 | Winston sent out a party of men and women from public life to see for themselves the horrors of Belsen . |
| 15 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 16 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 17 | We 're covered then , the insurance pays for whatever the cover is , er and er that 's how it works . |
| 18 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 19 | This is explained in detail in the paper , and the analysis in the paper ( and , indeed , the analysis presented at the time of the summer meeting for which the abstract was drafted ) is more sophisticated and based on a complete dataset . |
| 20 | In his work with teachers , especially through in-service courses , he put them into a " classroom " situation to experience for themselves the materials of art . |
| 21 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 22 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 23 | This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance . |
| 24 | They are the values of physical autonomy and freedom from molestation , the liberty to decide for oneself the level of pain to subject one 's body to ( e.g. in sport ) . |
| 25 | But the lute remains for him the most satisfying instrument to make : shaping the huge bowl-shaped backs is ‘ kinda wondrous ’ . |
| 26 | Next , you 'll be making tracks for your hotel to prepare for whatever the evening brings . |
| 27 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 28 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 29 | If a carer moves into a rented house to care for someone the right to succeed to the tenancy on the death of the tenant is lost ( Schedule 6 para 3 ) unless the care has lasted at least 5 years ( formerly 6 months was the qualifying period ) . |