Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 2 | Some amateur rose-growers are not interested , but more than just a few regard hybridizing and crossing their roses to see what happens as the summit of the rose-grower 's art , so here is a short discourse for them on this delightful aspect of rose growing . |
| 3 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 4 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I am delighted it has finally worked out for them after all these years . ’ |
| 6 | So put down , I 've only just missed two things out on health , there was the breathing and erm should be standing in for me on all four feet behind but not four it 's quite normal |
| 7 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 8 | I would appreciate your prayers for me during these coming months as I seek direction from the Lord about my future . |
| 9 | I 'll never forget how th'near slaughtered that feller — or the five golden guineas th'won for me off that dozy dago as set the Creole on thee . |
| 10 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
| 11 | It 's all a bit much for me after all these years as a frog . |
| 12 | he said well I think that 's the best you can do father , he said we 've had enough hassle for you for all these years ! |
| 13 | Did the union act for you at this particular time then ? |
| 14 | Radcliffe is not a wise choice of companion for you at this particular point in your family crisis . |
| 15 | In America and Canada there are things called pyon factories that 'll actually produce massive numbers of pyons for you without any great problems . |
| 16 | If I can not persuade her to keep you on , I promise I shall arrange matters for you in some other way . ’ |
| 17 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 18 | ‘ I have a Matchbox racing set I had bought and put away for him for that coming Christmas , but he never got to see it . |
| 19 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 20 | I 've to call for him at half ten . |
| 21 | I 've to call for him at half ten . |
| 22 | She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room . |
| 23 | To Neil , hide-bound Englishman that he was , Philip Arbuthnot was best described as Irish , because he could n't account for him in any other way . |
| 24 | The design for Isvik was influenced to quite a marked degree by the Peterhead-type sailing vessels of the Mounties , also by a sketch made for him by that extraordinary Antarctic single-hander , David Lewis . |
| 25 | The substitute had been on the field for only three minutes when McCoist got his second goal of the evening , made for him by another purposeful run and pass by Jess . |
| 26 | It was too much for him after all that business at the stocking factory . ’ |
| 27 | They bought a lovely white dress for her with little red spots all over it and she opened the wardrobe every day to have a look at it . |
| 28 | ‘ Songs were specially composed for her by such distinguished musicians as WSGwynn Williams and Meirion Williams , and she was often referred to as ‘ the second Katherine Ferrier ’ , ’ he said . |
| 29 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 30 | The trumpet is capable of considerable agility , but it is as well not to write rapid passages for it of any great length . |