Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 32 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 33 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 34 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 35 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 36 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 37 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 38 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |
| 39 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 40 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |
| 41 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 42 | The part of me which made the mistake with the buck , letting it get the better of me for a moment , might still be around if that acid test had n't found it out . |
| 43 | He 's a friend of the family , and although I was surprised to see him , Mum explained that he 'd come to take a few photographs of me for the family album — after all , it 's not every day you become a teenager . |
| 44 | We 're gon na stick hold of them for a minute or two because we have n't |
| 45 | After the class they treated themselves to lunch , cold poached salmon the first day and the best cut of cold beef the next , and wine to go with it , and a raffle amongst the six of them for a bottle . |
| 46 | Even the average consumption of these can be harmful for us. for many of us , reducing our consumption or even stopping all of them for a while is likely to help us in a number of ways . |
| 47 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 48 | He went without a sight of any of them for a year . |
| 49 | An indrawn breath from the spectators unsettled both of them for a moment . |
| 50 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 51 | He held both of them for a moment before turning to Ian and presenting him with a sword drawn from its scabbard . |
| 52 | This is her weekly expenditure : rent £21.78 electricity ( plus arrears ) £12.50 gas £1.00 club £6.00 sheet man £1.00 boots club £1.00 £43.28 This left about £17 to feed the four of them for a week . |
| 53 | Then analyse each one of them for a lesson . |
| 54 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 55 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 56 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 57 | ought to pass a vote of thanks to both of them for the sterling work they have done and I would be more than happy to er thank you |
| 58 | Mary found tiger lilies and Hope , discovering Mr Robinson 's prize of six bottles of good claret , bought two of them for the evening . |
| 59 | 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) ) . |
| 60 | I 'd like one of them for the landing . |