Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 2 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 3 | For them a central reason for concentrating on civil society lies in the social and emotional significance of the home . |
| 4 | For them a systematic process is more plausible and most human resource departments in firms have systematized procedures ( application forms , interview schedules , psychological tests ) to extract theme data at the time a person joins the firm . |
| 5 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 6 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 7 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
| 8 | Of course , this makes fishing for them a challenging business and it is one that absorbs a great many specialist anglers . |
| 9 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 10 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 11 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 12 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 13 | Most of them were refugees from East Africa living in substandard conditions and paying exorbitant rents ; for them a second income was desperately needed , and going on strike seemed a dangerous business . |
| 14 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 15 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 16 | Lloyd has ‘ discovered ’ for them a magnificent location in the shape of the old ‘ boat-houses ’ along the Embankment . |
| 17 | There was disagreement between the two companies as to whose responsibility would be the making of this towpath , so that in the end they built between them a new bridge just beyond the bottom lock . |
| 18 | Between them a small window showed a blank stretch of wall on the other side of the alley . |
| 19 | 1.3. a Although only 58 institutions provided the full questionnaire , they taught between them a large number of courses . |
| 20 | On my first administrative promotion in Buckinghamshire I encountered Geoff Link , for me a new colleague , but also a former teacher . |
| 21 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 22 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 23 | Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug . |
| 24 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 25 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 26 | ‘ I do have an electric razor , but for me a serious shave is a wet one . |
| 27 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 28 | You see , for me a good game of football involves lots of intricate passing . |
| 29 | They must have been — it meant for me a round journey of more than eighty miles just for a home fixture . |
| 30 | New breed : from The Blue Lily Strip Search : Cleveland Art Gallery , Middlesbrough COMICS may be for me a closed book . |