Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 2 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 3 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 4 | That 's the cardigan we bought you for Christmas |
| 5 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 6 | Just keep half the gram he lent you for your own use , and sell the rest . |
| 7 | Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it . |
| 8 | Towards the end of Year II , some students undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for Year III and for the world of work beyond graduation . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 10 | ‘ At that point , ’ says Colonel Gordon Wilkinson MHCIMA , deputy director , Army catering , ‘ they go back to St Omer barracks , Aldershot , home of Army catering since the Army Catering Corps was formed in 1941 , to take the 12-week advanced chef 's course which prepares them for shift manager level in a kitchen . |
| 11 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 12 | Raising standards ; by guaranteeing that all pupils get a balanced curriculum which prepares them for adult life ; and by setting objectives over the full range of abilities — via ‘ attainment targets ’ backed up with appropriate assessment arrangements . |
| 13 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 14 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 15 | The Turner was given to the Royal Holloway — which occupies a 800-room Grade I listed building — in 1883 by its founder , Thomas Holloway , a Victorian philanthropist who bought it for £3,675 . |
| 16 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 17 | Nigel is by no means the fool she took him for . |
| 18 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 19 | However , if you write to us on your return we compensate you for outbound delays as follows : |
| 20 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 21 | I 'm not the fool he took me for ! ’ |
| 22 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 23 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 24 | Later that evening I joined them for dinner , sharing a few tins of Compo and three bottles of French cider . |
| 25 | But I mean , you know yeah , during the war you got one for |
| 26 | In creative writing they often only half do the job you used them for : they say more or less what you mean , but not exactly . |
| 27 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 28 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |
| 29 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 30 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |