Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent . |
| 2 | Dana 's shrill voice made Claudia jump away from Roman as if she were guilty of something , but Roman had only been about to say he had asked Dana to model for him in order to get to know her better . |
| 3 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 4 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 5 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 6 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Jason Gardiner played for us over here last night and he did very well , but Airdrie in the Premier League is a different proposition altogether . |
| 8 | There could be no more appropriate item with which to initiate such a project than the magnificent 12-part Motet In Memoriam Robert Carver which Ronald Stevenson composed for them in 1987–88 : a work which deliberately spans the centuries to invoke the spirit of Carver in new , late 20th-Century context . |
| 9 | They found Carrington and Grant waiting for them in the saloon . |
| 10 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 11 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 12 | No one at the university was to know of his DIA connection , and to avoid any written record that might compromise his cover , Donleavy arranged for him to be paid during this period with American Express money orders drawn at 7–11 stores around Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 13 | The foundation is a complex of buildings which includes Son Abrines , the family home still occupied by Pilar , the artist 's widow , Son Boter , the old stone house which Miró employed as his graphics studio , coating its walls in charcoal sketches , the studio which Josep Luis Sert constructed for him in 1954–56 and where he worked until his death in 1983 , and the new exhibition centre of Sert 's pupil , Rafael Moneo , Dean of the Graduate Design School in Harvard . |
| 14 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 15 | For example in Les heureux époux and Silène ( book 2 ) , whose airs were lifted from Danchet and Campra 's censored ballet Les amours de Venus ( 1712 ) , the composer routinely set almost all the new recitatives Danchet wrote for them in the mode opposite to that of the air they precede , although there is no affective call for this . |
| 16 | What did the FA do for us with the Stuttgart incident last year ? |
| 17 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 18 | It was the sacrament of justification by grace ; the physical , palpable reminder that God acted for him without his aid and prior to his response . |
| 19 | ‘ Did you tell Rex that Alan Dysart worked for you in Swindon during university vacations ? ’ |
| 20 | Aunt Emily sent for her after breakfast . |
| 21 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 22 | O K so look let me just go through these notices er for today 's tutorial period , one or two changes erm again a thought for the week from the chaplain to begin with , during the approaching season of Lent , the best thing we can do is to centre our thoughts on what Jesus Christ did for us through his passion , death and resurrection . |
| 23 | Justification is a descriptive doctrine ; it is a way of explaining what God does for us in Christ . |
| 24 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 25 | President Kenyatta asked for it to be translated into Swahili ; and members of his Cabinet paid tribute to its part in bringing a bloodless transition to self-government there . |
| 26 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 27 | His only source of superiority is that Frye fagged for him at school . |
| 28 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 29 | They reached the stables and found Murtach waiting for them with his sword strapped to his back and a quiver of arrows at his hip . |
| 30 | It was a relief to both of them to reach home and find Helen and Anne waiting for them in Magdalen Street , with a hot meal prepared and a warm welcome from them and Moira . |