Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Hislop , who was also to have ridden a Kawasaki at the Brand 's meeting , will not now be there for there is no bike for him in view of the fact that all efforts are being put behind Farmer . |
| 2 | Not only did it have the broad ideological stamp of approval from Marx and Engels themselves , but the preparation for it within Romania had started already in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | I tell you who else was there erm the lady who used to do caretaking for you at school you know , who had a little girl months before Becca was born . |
| 4 | She 's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this . |
| 5 | Of course he was thirteen years older than her , she being but twenty ; but then she would take into consideration that he was the footman and it was a splendid rise for her from kitchen maid . |
| 6 | The mid-century architect Robert Morris makes the case for them with fervour : ‘ the Geographer can travel from one Country to another , through various Climates , over Sea and Land … and yet be only retir 'd to his Closet ’ . |
| 7 | We need to examine the case for it in relation to each and every old person , whose circumstances vary so greatly . |
| 8 | Section 17(10) defines children in need as follows : a child shall be taken to be in need if : ( a ) he is unlikely to achieve or maintain , or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining , a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him of services by a local authority under [ Part III of the Act ] ; ( b ) his health or development is likely to be significantly impaired , without the provision for him of such services ; or ( c ) he is disabled . |
| 9 | Pray that the missionary may enter into the provision for him in Rev 12 : 11 . |
| 10 | Local and regional governments are , potentially , heavy spenders of public funds and complete freedom for them to institute and carry out their own expenditure programmes has come to be regarded in some quarters as subversive of a sufficiently refined power of control over public expenditure overall by central government . |
| 11 | Yet if the little Swede is patient , I can see a major part for him in George Graham 's scheme of things . |
| 12 | Is it , it tells you though what , what interests is erm I , I love the virtue of this period so , yeah , it 's a good excuse for me to sort of |
| 13 | J , A , K , O , B. You 've got a cheque for me for £799 . ’ |
| 14 | There was little sympathy for them from club officials , with ‘ apathy ’ one of the words used to describe their attitude . |
| 15 | She rented an apartment for us in Perpignan and bought us food and clothes . |
| 16 | We 'll have another update for you after News at Ten . |
| 17 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 18 | Professor Hayek recognises that a free-enterprise economy requires the presence of strong moral standards of a particular kind for it to work : the two crucial ones being a belief in individual responsibility and a recognition that the merit and worth of individuals do not correspond to the material rewards of the market economy . |
| 19 | The technical department provided a base for him in order that he could pursue Technical Studies over and above normal classes . |
| 20 | The consecration of Ecgfrith by Hygeberht as archbishop of Lichfield , therefore , was probably designed to enhance Ecgfrith 's position as Offa 's heir and consolidate support for him within Mercia . |
| 21 | Intel is also developing a software version of Digital Video Interactive and working with Microsoft Corp to build support for it into Microsoft 's Audio Visual Interleave software , which Microsoft plans to announce at Comdex/Fall next month in a package called Video for Windows . |
| 22 | By January 1987 , when it was clear that X Window really worked across multi-vendor networks , there was a joint statement of support for it by Apollo , Data General , DEC , Hewlett-Packard , Masscomp , Siemens and Sony , amongst others ( not IBM ) . |
| 23 | She heard the dead man say Look for me by moonlight ; |
| 24 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 25 | The difference will be that there will be a well motivated , well managed person in place to take personal responsibility for them on behalf of the branch . |
| 26 | ‘ Simply because I felt some responsibility for you in Bruges , ’ Luke replied evenly . |
| 27 | They decided , with a wild mixture of folly and idealism , that in the spring of 1795 they would set sail from England to establish an ideal community in America , and in the meantime would gather recruits for the scheme and earn money for it by writing . |
| 28 | Just a good experience for her for time , you know . |
| 29 | You might have thought I 'd happily become a little playmate for you to while away a few tedious hours with , but let me tell you , Mr Jacobsen , you were way off the mark . ’ |
| 30 | Over a thousand mountain bikers are racing … we 'll have the best of the action for you on Monday … |