Example sentences of "[indef pn] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 2 | June had asked Hilda Lodge to thank everyone for the lovely flowers sent to her during her recent stay in hospital . |
| 3 | Janice sends very many thanks to everyone for the lovely flowers she received while in hospital recently and thanks also to the super evening she spent at Avery Hill Easter Party . |
| 4 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 6 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 7 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 8 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 9 | There 's always that barrier to be got over , when you are going to sleep with someone for the first time , and I just thought it would be a good time to get it over with . |
| 10 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 11 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 12 | So we did the double over someone for the first time since beating Sheff United in the championship winning game . |
| 13 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 14 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 15 | The figures of the main characters of the Nativity are then placed on it along with the pots of cereals , now full of green sprouts which symbolize fertility and plenty for the coming year . |
| 16 | AND PLENTY FOR THE LITTLE DUDES TOO |
| 17 | Only two sketches are known for his French operas and none for the Italian ones . |
| 18 | He guessed that was how she would always be , blocking out everything for the preferred world of her own creation until an idea was spent . |
| 19 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 20 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 21 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 22 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 23 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 24 | Deictic function is pointing out something for the first time , often using demonstratives as in Look at that picture ! ; |
| 25 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 26 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 27 | Gina , Barbara , Ronnie and Chris Jury , a friend of theirs from Hull University Drama Department days , volunteered to arrange something for the second anniversary of John 's kidnap on 17 April . |
| 28 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 29 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 30 | Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price . |