Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chelsea have offered a hundred and twenty thousand pounds compensation for loosing Glenn the manager . |
| 2 | Thank you for sending CPRW the notice of this year 's AGM and the Trust 's Newsletter . |
| 3 | So , I tell you what , if , if we do end up spending Christmas at gon na give me the present I got to Di and said thank you Di for giving Stella the Christmas present . |
| 4 | The music was by Scarlatti ( ‘ Les Adieux ’ ) and the designs were by Hugh Stevenson , who was also responsible for giving John the chance to make the ballet . |
| 5 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |