Example sentences of "for [pron] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Apart from these important changes , specialized antiracist work within the local state has been increasingly identified as an embarrassment by the Labour Party for whom political commitments to antiracism and multiculturalism are apparently a vote loser . |
2 | My aunt , she run a house for them visitin' ministers to Port au Prince . |
3 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
4 | In preparation for my recent trip to Cyprus I recalled the letter which Ron Swinburne of Birmingham wrote to you many months ago about the flying services available on the island at rates far below those of the UK . |
5 | see you guys in a forthnight when i will be at white hart lane for my annual trip to england … ( anyone know of any good health club with hidden cameras where they can shoot my ‘ beatiful ’ body ? ; - ) he , he ) |
6 | I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed . |
7 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
8 | And I was still in time for my 13.15 departure to Sunderland across the footbridge . |
9 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
10 | For me , movies and play were enmeshed during childhood , a certain cinema and its environs being both stimulus and setting for my juvenile adventures to the extent that , thirty years later , its contours and hidey holes still haunt my dreams . |
11 | Was in Torquay last weekend for one night at its expense to receive chairman 's award for my voluntary input to British Association of Industrial Editors , notably to Education & Professional Development — bliss to be funded and have a night in a good hotel and a trip up and down the river Dart in quite remarkable sunshine — glorious countryside . |
12 | Phoebe smiled , and allowed herself an unusual and agreeable start of gratitude to Rachel , not just for her consistent kindness to Maggie , but also , freshly , for her generosity and understanding towards herself . |
13 | THE dress Pretty Woman Julia Roberts ordered for her cancelled wedding to Brat Packer Kiefer Sutherland could end up being auctioned off for charity . |
14 | Passengers board the Queen Mary for her maiden voyage to Southampton in May 1936 . |
15 | Television presenter Alison Holloway wore white ( well , cream , to be exact ) twice to get married : for her first wedding to Alistair Watson , son of veteran British screen start Jack Watson , and second time around , when she got hitched to TV comedian Jim ‘ Nick Nick ’ Davidson . |
16 | That was the reason for her disquieting responses to the beautiful gifts and the disturbing change in her . |
17 | The Countess was known locally for her frequent visits to the sick and the infirm and never at a loss for a generous word or gesture . |
18 | Last year , Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for her peaceful opposition to martial law . |
19 | The mistress of the church school in a Somersetshire parish in 1805 was not a widow but still sufficiently poor for her ten-year-old son to be killed working in a coal mine . |
20 | BEVERLEY Allitt attended a local school in Lincolnshire and was noticed only for her constant attempts to be at the centre of attention . |
21 | No certificate has been found for her presumed marriage to Dandré , with whom she spent the rest of her life . |
22 | She is prolific , having been awarded the Mary Vaughan Jones Prize in 1988 for her particular contribution to the field of children 's books over a number of years . |
23 | famous for her beauty and for her flamboyant commitment to Irish republicanism . |
24 | The Government has been criticised for its complacent attitude to the protection of children and young people at work in a joint report by the Children 's Rights Development Unit in Scotland and the Scottish Low Pay Unit . |
25 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
26 | Ventura has been criticised for taking away the exquisite and interactive control while PageMaker has been similarly slated for its tedious approach to standard formats and layouts . |
27 | Time magazine had long ago been berated by Kerouac and his compatriot American poet Allen Ginsberg for its repressive attitude to the surging movement of youth inspired by these literary figures and by the likes of Brando and Dean on screen . |
28 | Sun is said to be going into direct competition with Apple Computer Inc spin-out General Magic Inc and has already licensed designs for its nomadic computer to two Japanese companies , and is in talks with French and German consumer electronics companies . |
29 | The 30-member Pakistani delegation , led by the secretary-general of the Pakistan Foreign Office , Akram Zaki , reportedly included members of the army 's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) , known for its close links to mujaheddin groups , especially the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami [ see p. 38153 ] . |
30 | But Flight 1862 , carrying 100 tons of fuel for its five-hour flight to Israel , exploded in a large fireball as it ripped into the flats . |