Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 2 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 3 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 4 | Two you had off me for the fete . |
| 5 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
| 6 | Bénéteau will build a maxi for them for the race . |
| 7 | A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 10 | Therefore price competition between them for the right to sell to the retailers would drive price to marginal cost . |
| 11 | ‘ But it means you work for me for the rest of your life to pay me back . ’ |
| 12 | Smart Drive going in , the new Smart Drive p p presumably it will put my mouse driv my new mouse driver in for me for the day when I want one ? |
| 13 | for me for the C E D G to have a combined BES Works |
| 14 | Peel the patates for me for the soup , she said : and I 'll keep the pan of choux mixture for you to lick . |
| 15 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 20 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Mary found tiger lilies and Hope , discovering Mr Robinson 's prize of six bottles of good claret , bought two of them for the evening . |
| 25 | 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) ) . |
| 26 | I 'd like one of them for the landing . |
| 27 | Hollywood 's worst in the movie line has recruited hundreds of them for the gangs of race-course roughs , motor bandits , and smash-and-grab thieves . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Very good , ’ he said , moving in that oddly stiff and creaky way of his for the door . |
| 29 | I wish to thank each and every one of you for the part you played during 1991 . |
| 30 | I am deeply grateful to each one of you for the care which this gesture signifies , a care for the diocese , for the people of the diocese , and a care for me personally . |