Example sentences of "of [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We 're gon na stick hold of them for a minute or two because we have n't |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 7 | He went without a sight of any of them for a year . |
| 8 | An indrawn breath from the spectators unsettled both of them for a moment . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | He held both of them for a moment before turning to Ian and presenting him with a sword drawn from its scabbard . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then analyse each one of them for a lesson . |
| 13 | The door had n't opened , but there had n't been another sound out of them for the rest of the night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Mary found tiger lilies and Hope , discovering Mr Robinson 's prize of six bottles of good claret , bought two of them for the evening . |
| 19 | 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) ) . |
| 20 | I 'd like one of them for the landing . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | De Niro does n't seem particularly keen to discuss his reasons for wanting to run a restaurant , and will only say that it 's been a vague dream of his for a while . |
| 23 | ‘ Very good , ’ he said , moving in that oddly stiff and creaky way of his for the door . |
| 24 | And whereas other Renaissance examples of the exhortation to marriage dwell on the delight and solace of the married state , our poet 's argument , by contrast , is directed to the friend 's reproduction of himself for the benefit of posterity . |
| 25 | He received honours from Italy , Serbia , Montenegro , and the republic of San Marino , of which for a time he was consul in London . |
| 26 | So I 'm gon na ask both of you for a word specially in a moment to describe what it was like for that girl in the jungle . |
| 27 | ‘ Glad to be rid of you for a while , ’ she retorted . |
| 28 | ‘ Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd be immensely pleased if you 'd let me stay with you at your place and take care of you for a while . |
| 29 | Well , I 'm trying to get information out of you for a start . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Why do n't I take the pair of you for a plate of chips ? ’ |