Example sentences of "for [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 2 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 3 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 4 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 5 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 6 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 7 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 8 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 9 | Particular highlights for me over the last year have included : |
| 10 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 11 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 12 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 13 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 14 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 15 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 16 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 17 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 18 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 19 | Brian obviously a very important win for you but there were some close shaves for you in the second half . |
| 20 | It 's been so dreary for you in the last couple of weeks . |
| 21 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 22 | I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal . |
| 23 | Everything she had tried to achieve for herself during the last four years would have to be tossed away , useless . |
| 24 | for him about the second half saying , you know that he would n't have said this , would n't have said that . |
| 25 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 26 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 27 | He was thinking of Madra pouring beer for him at the last one . |
| 28 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 29 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 30 | Watch out for him in the second series of The Young Ones when it 's next repeated , making a brief guest appearance as an exploding peasant . |