Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now he had learnt that Pete Foster , the man being investigated for murder and fraud in the Docks , a hard man , was terrified of his old mother and had kept his successful career in crime hidden from her for sixteen years . |
| 2 | The county court judge gave judgment for the mother in an action brought by her for the £1 per week based upon the father 's undertaking . |
| 3 | It is clear that a payment made by him for goods bought is binding , though payment could not have been enforced against him . |
| 4 | Please make sure that any money collected by you for Society membership is paid promptly to the office . |
| 5 | The Statue of the Etook Ha'chllt he 'd bartered for in a little town called Slew , which was now , regrettably , a blasted spot , its citizens the victims of a purge visited upon them for the crime of a song , written in the dialect of their community , suggesting that the Autarch of Yzordderrex lacked testicles . |
| 6 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 8 | In fact , she did not realise she was to have the honour conferred on her for a few days after the letter arrived . |
| 9 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 10 | Since issue number one we 've quoted the raw results of the benchmark tests we use ( and we 've chosen them pretty carefully , I might add , and applied them to every machine submitted to us for review ) , but we 've discovered that the raw figures do n't mean a lot to a great many of you . |
| 11 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 12 | Save as provided in regulation 36 of these regulations , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade vehicle , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence unless it is a vehicle which is temporarily in his possession in the course of his business as a motor trader or a recovery vehicle kept by him for the purpose of dealing with disabled vehicles in the course of that business . |
| 13 | He dipped the flannel in the water and bathed the swollen joint not once but many times , leaving the flannel wrapped around it for long seconds each time . |
| 14 | The business community rallied to him for fear that Duke 's election would scare off tourism and outside investors . |
| 15 | The defendants , some of them very young , belonged to a small left-wing group known as Everyone for the Motherland Movement ( Movimiento Todos por la Patria — MTP ) ; at the time 13 of them were arrested inside the barracks and five nearby , while two , including a priest , surrendered later . |
| 16 | Lawyer D told her that a jointly-owned house would become the sole property of her husband after her death , and she could not in any way guarantee her share of the money invested in it for her children . |
| 17 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 18 | Another tangled virgin called on her for help against a dragon , called on her though she had thought that her time was past and the dragons had all departed . |
| 19 | Section 245B provides that , as an alternative to an application to the court by the Secretary of State , such an application may be made ‘ by any person authorised by him for the purposes of this section . ’ |
| 20 | The Fed is still sore from the criticism thrown at it for pushing America into recession ; if it tightens policy before official figures show inflation to be rising , it will come under fierce political attack . |
| 21 | He also had 6½d a day allowed to him for lunches at work and demanded that 1/1d a week be spent on ‘ relishes ’ for his breakfast and tea — usually consisting of an egg , a piece of bacon , or fish . |
| 22 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |
| 23 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 24 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 25 | Most of the 25,000 audience in the Palais Bercy could not see the platform because of the enormous scaffold bridge built across it for the cameras . |
| 26 | Unlike Kissinger , Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize offered to him for his role in negotiating the agreements . |
| 27 | Within two minutes Mike Hall put Peter Dods in for the Barbarians ' third try , and another four followed in a procession interrupted by one for Newport by John Thomas . |
| 28 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 29 | Accordingly , the tenant will have carried out substantial improvements , the cost of which will form a large part of the consideration given by him for the grant of the lease . |
| 30 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |