Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] for the " in BNC.

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1 In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week .
2 Luke rolled her back on the bed , their mouths still hungrily joined together , and she could feel his hand search behind her for the zip of her dress .
3 He will carry disappointment with him for the rest of his political career and , indeed , to the end of his days .
4 I know we got a mention in it for the museum and that was , oh did you get your keepsake ?
5 She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation .
6 The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past .
7 Perhaps a crewman stumbles , it could be the gloop is n't hot enough , maybe there is n't enough pepper in it for the cook 's liking .
8 ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game .
9 He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks .
10 Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman .
11 the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) .
12 And I daresay she thinks she 's succeeded — done me out of my rights and fixed up a snug home for herself for the rest of her days !
13 As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months .
14 ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’
15 I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost .
16 He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax .
17 It was now too much at home with her for the response to be triggered .
18 ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’
19 In TRACE II units at the same level fight amongst themselves for the available supporting evidence .
20 She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel .
21 The best deal I can do on the airfares is £870 — this includes a small fee for myself for the administration .
22 He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year .
23 Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank .
24 Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line .
25 ‘ I am not going to get this country into a war with anybody for the League of Nations or anybody else or for anything else , ’ Baldwin is recorded as saying .
26 If he did , he was in an enviable position to play cat and mouse with her for the duration of their stay .
27 ‘ I was asked to do a promotional picture with him for the video launch , but I refused .
28 The syllabus for modern languages in the GCSE is very full ; but there is no place in it for the teaching of grammar .
29 There was no salvation outside the church and no place within it for the deviant .
30 The distinction between the meaning of the word ‘ agent ’ in the common law sense of ‘ special agent ’ and its meaning in what for the want of a better expression I will call its ‘ equitable sense ’ was not expressly pointed out until the judgment of the court was delivered by Slade L.J .
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