Example sentences of "for [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some bureaux can make access for disabled clients feasible , there are still many disabled clients for whom coming to a bureau may not be worthwhile even if their problem is pressing . |
| 2 | That the BIS was a mixture of unconventional religion and radical politics was further underlined by the support of Garrison and his emissaries from the United States ; British India development as a way of undermining British dependence on American cotton was equally for them part of a package , which included association with ‘ moral force ’ Chartists and hostility to evangelical ‘ sectarianism ’ in antislavery in the form of the BFASS , a view they held despite Sturge 's middle-class political radicalism . |
| 3 | That morning he 'd had an hour at a training centre ( ’ not just a fleeting photo opportunity ’ ) ; in the street he was collared by an elderly chap about the price of Guinness and tried in vain to stick a Vote For Me sticker on a recalcitrant toddler . |
| 4 | I want to be remembered for my skill as a stills photographer . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very evident that since the publication of the paperback the campaign against it has subsided , to such an extent that even one of my most hardline critics , the British Muslim Dr Kalim Siddiqui , was recently quoted in the Guardian as saying it is time to forgive and forget , which is a rather extraordinary volte-face from someone who was until recently asking for my head on a plate . |
| 6 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 7 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 8 | A few days later I did question Shadwell about the possibility of not being covered in shit for my debut as a professional actor . |
| 9 | You can see I had no great hopes for my future as a woman . |
| 10 | An excellent idea , but it does mean too high a reversing speed , even in low ratio , for my liking with a trailer . |
| 11 | So , what have I got to show for my time as a hostage ? |
| 12 | Yes I do know it 's bad for my health as a matter of fact , that 's why I like it . |
| 13 | A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint . |
| 14 | Far more clear in my mind were recurrent pictures of Victor trembling as if with fever ; Elizabeth , fair and beautiful and composed ; Justine , pleading without effect for her life before a room full of people covertly eager for her blood ; and the creature Frankenstein had made — that gigantic figure without a face , striking fear and worse than fear wherever it went . |
| 15 | Monika Helbing , a former member of the Red Army Faction , received a seven-year prison sentence on Feb. 24 for her complicity in the kidnap and murder in 1977 of Hans-Martin Schleyer , the West German industrialist [ see p. 28918 ; 28920 ] , and for her part in a bank robbery in Nürnberg in 1979 . |
| 16 | She commuted by air between England , France and Monte Carlo , took a Hollywood screen test , only to turn her back on America for her love of a famous impresario . |
| 17 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 18 | She stood up with total aplomb , and carried off first prize for her rendering of a " Purple Pussycat " . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I thanked her for her honesty with a box of chocolates . ’ |
| 20 | Somebody was out of town for two days , he explained , somebody who would block any proposal for her release as a matter of course . |
| 21 | I do n't want to be talking to you , thought Penelope desperately , trying to appear interested in what Robina Fairfax was saying about a place in West London where she had bought a piece of statuary for her garden at a very reasonable price . |
| 22 | Though her motivation is irrelevant in the sense that it matters not why she took the decision she did , I find that the reason for her refusal of a blood transfusion arises because it is contrary to the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses . |
| 23 | Richard came forward then to formally ask for her hand in a pavan but , observing that his brother was conversing with his elected bride and catching the latter 's meaningful glance , he cheerfully turned away and asked his sister Cecily instead . |
| 24 | Even today , the bookshops of Hamra Street and Sassine Square contain shelves of expensive photographic records of the fighting , coffee table books with colour plates in which readers can study at their leisure and in detail the last moments of a young Muslim militiaman before the firing squad , the anguished eyes of a Palestinian mother pleading for her family before a hooded gunman , a Christian family lying massacred inside their home . |
| 25 | It seemed to be part of this dreadful time , with the responsibility for her mother like a crushing weight on her . |
| 26 | The theme Eva took for her testimony at a united service in Brisbane the Good Friday after her conversion summed up her new found faith . |
| 27 | Ordinarily she would have relished the variety which the creators of Moloch had offered up for her pleasure without a qualm or a second thought , but this time something was getting to her , making her nervous . |
| 28 | The little Hindu girl is brought up carefully to prepare for her role as a wife and mother in an alien family . |
| 29 | There was Irene Munro , who had improved her complexion with Icilma cream before being battered to death for her handbag on a beach . |
| 30 | Fortunately , Miss Zeta Jones wore ordinary clothes for her visit to a victim of Motor Neurone disease . |