Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Finally , one other began to use heroin almost by default in that he and a friend bought heroin with the specific aim of selling it for a profit . |
| 32 | What these critics apparently ca n't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others . |
| 33 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 34 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 35 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 36 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 37 | What 's the point in saving everything for a comfortable old age if you 're suffering hardship now ? |
| 38 | I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend . |
| 39 | Pauline began the Meeting by thanking everyone for attending the important meeting before lunch and for their concern for our future . |
| 40 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 41 | He was a strange man , still lonely in spite of taking her for his wife , and kept his own counsel , never discussing his thoughts with her , keeping his troubles deep , and always ensuring that she had whatever she needed . |
| 42 | With modern-day technology it is getting harder to achieve all the time , but there is one common denominator in the case of Eric Liddell and Allan Wells , and that is the fierce determination to win and the intense pride of doing it for Scotland . |
| 43 | Three days ago she had refused her final chance of giving it for love . |
| 44 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 45 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 46 | She would die by her own hand before the man she was approaching so unflinchingly had the chance to dishonour fitzAlan 's name by using her for his amusement . |
| 47 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 48 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 49 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 50 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 51 | Though he has difficulty in writing anything for publication , he is a scrupulous and painstaking examiner , and his own examination papers are carefully pondered , finely drafted works of art . |
| 52 | I have no hesitation in recommending them for steady moving water and out of the two I feel the series X is more versatile . |
| 53 | She felt that the ‘ on — off ’ nature of their relationship — when he was here today but not tomorrow , or even the next day — was all part of Nicky 's habit of taking her for granted . |
| 54 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 55 | John Wallace , one of the magistrates of the burgh of Arbroath , explained his reasons for seeking a sinecure appointment worth £50 or so for his son , by emphasising his fear that ‘ the lad will turn out but indifferently qualified for business otherways I should not give so much trouble in asking something for him … |
| 56 | He himself had drunk one quick light beer before excusing himself for an early night . |
| 57 | Kirov returned the packet to his pocket without extracting one for himself . |
| 58 | Confuse a waitress by asking her for a Big Mac and chips ? |
| 59 | Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals . |
| 60 | A MAN shot dead his teenage daughter after mistaking her for a burglar . |