Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [noun] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have worked long and hard to ensure that my children want for nothing . " |
| 2 | Well look at , look at , look at that my organization bought for twenty six , twenty seven staff , fifty four thousand pounds . |
| 3 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 4 | SunSoft has been publicly quiet on Interactive Unix since acquiring the division at the new year despite the fact that its sales accounted for a significant portion of the record number of licenses it sold . |
| 5 | He rejected the alternative package offered by Congress on the grounds that its tax increases for the rich would " not stimulate growth but stifle it " and were indicative of the inability of the Democrats to resist " their natural impulse to raise taxes " . |
| 6 | Eugenics never achieved the overall hegemonic position that its advocates hoped for . |
| 7 | In 1986 she contacted her local authority for help ; it was then , she says , that her life changed for the worse . |
| 8 | She had never thought that her hair stood for anything other than passion and desire to Benedict . |
| 9 | She had n't enjoyed the heavy petting that her peers took for granted . |
| 10 | For many Communists , it is hard to break with the party that looked after them , that they believed in , that their parents fought for . |
| 11 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 12 | The industry is not quite sure what the strategy of the two generating companies is , but a number of observers are convinced that they area fighting for market share with scant regard for cost criteria . |
| 13 | Case , who did his best to convince his schoolboy admirers that his initials stood for Charles Christopher Columbus . |
| 14 | He says that his school caters for children with special needs , one of the areas most under threat from cuts . |
| 15 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 16 | And you have to say that his philosophy works for him . |
| 17 | Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself . |
| 18 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 19 | Ross says that his team searched for ‘ the sort of things you would never find here , both to Britain 's credit and to my great sorrow ’ . |
| 20 | The new churches need to see that what Jesus prayed for in John 17 has also to be applied to love between churches . |
| 21 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 22 | e We have learned that our residents need for companionship and physical contact far exceeds their need for privacy . |
| 23 | The first thing I would point to is that our training costs for last year averaged out at £5,100 per trainee . |
| 24 | He said that our grandfathers fought for the Holy Land and that we must stick to the Holy Land . |
| 25 | What matters now is that your make-up cares for your skin as well as colours it . |
| 26 | Then , on the day of the party , decorate a clock face with twelve small sweets that your child chooses for the numbers . |
| 27 | ‘ You should remember , miss , ’ said Bessie , ‘ that your aunt pays for your food and clothes , and you should be grateful . |
| 28 | No doubt your gran often gave your mum the benefit of her advice but it probably never occurred to her , as it has n't occurred to you , that your mother longs for love , company and sex . |