Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for that limerick of hers , I have heard her tell worse . |
| 2 | Not that I 've any time for that widow of his . |
| 3 | As he held her she seemed to swell , as if another skin , another body , more calm and perfect than the one she had , grew out of her as token for that love of him which could in looks and words show itself so inadequately . |
| 4 | I stroked the long handle of the trowel , wondering if my father had a name for that stick of his . |
| 5 | Any attempt she makes to obscure her femininity backfires with absurd vengeance ; there is no refuge for that face of hers . |
| 6 | George 's mother 's going to give him a bottle of coltsfoot linctus for that cough of yours . |
| 7 | She 's making it very clear she does n't believe Anna 's good enough for that brother of hers . |
| 8 | In this poem we see their shared Jewishness , and the ‘ irreverence ’ ( as some would see it ) they each had for the Tradition — at least for that view of it which some espoused ; we also see a shared disdain for rabbinic ( and priestly ) logic , to them both a form of mental death . |
| 9 | You may not be aware of the Hayes Society , for few talk of it these days . |
| 10 | Well there 's one lad he driving the waggon er he works for another branch of them it just the haulage whatsit . |
| 11 | This well known fact was somehow never discussed in public by the girls , for public admission of it would have destroyed and inhibited its oddly private thrill , and would have shamed the vain ones into cowering in their cubicles , as the timid and modest already did . |
| 12 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 13 | BELVILLE : [ sarcastically ] What do you design , madam , to do with or for this Pamela of yours ? |
| 14 | ‘ Now , where 's the best place acoustically for this wireless of mine ? ’ |
| 15 | I started to thank God for this colleague of mine and his gifts and commitment . |
| 16 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 17 | too bad for this time of I bet we 're doing better this year , this time of the year than we did last . |
| 18 | ’ Eleanor Thorne shook her head , laughing , for this visitor of hers understood so well . |
| 19 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
| 20 | But the bearing of children at advanced ages to satisfy a demand for large numbers of them as , for example , in the Africa region is associated both with higher levels of maternal mortality , early childhood mortality and the morbidity of infants and young children . |
| 21 | On March 6 a compromise solution was reached between Foreign Minister Stoyan Ganev and Zhelev over the National Intelligence Service , which would be the subject of legislation to allow for parliamentary supervision of it . |
| 22 | ‘ So you 'll see , I 'm sure you 'll see , that I ca n't listen to you , Holy Father Tom , ca n't hear you , ca n't , not for a minute , so you 'll have to do as you 're told , have to do what I want , Father Tom , because there 's no time for this , no time , no time for these words of yours , you fuck , Your fucking Holy Holiness , only time for what I want , time for words of mine , time for what I want to say , nothing else , Father Tom , you fuck , Your fucking Holiness , you see , for my words , nothing else , nothing Holy Father , nothing else , just me , just mine , only time for that . ’ |
| 23 | Does the King pay for all night of you , or can the Church claim an hour of your time ? ’ |
| 24 | And for all rumours of me read obituary |
| 25 | All other plans ( outside London and the old metropolitan county areas where ‘ unitary ’ plans now operate ) are local plans and the great majority are the responsibility of the districts who prepare district plans for their whole area or local plans for smaller parts of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you do any baking , ’ she wonders , all innocent , ‘ for those friends of yours I met last week ? ’ |
| 27 | Till the grape for sheer surfeit of me |
| 28 | In the 1580s the Turkey Company and the Venice Company were founded , and in 1592 they combined to form the Levant Company , which learned enough about the riches of the Indies for various members of it to organize the East India Company , which had about £68,000 trading capital for its first voyage and a charter granted on 31 December 1600 . |
| 29 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 30 | Even if disaster strikes , as it seemed to for one student of mine who dropped her nearly completed head on the concrete floor and an ear snapped off , do n't let it worry you unduly . |