Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Starlight and glow-worm light captured for me the simplicity of this joy . |
| 4 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 5 | Though Conrad 's Narcissus runs it close , Crime and Punishment remains for me the most accessible and exciting novel in the world . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | But the lute remains for him the most satisfying instrument to make : shaping the huge bowl-shaped backs is ‘ kinda wondrous ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |