Example sentences of "with [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I groped around with my foot for the table-leg and pressed down hard until the spasm gradually subsided . |
| 2 | My eyes were very bad , and I had to pay a young curate to help me with my work for the church . |
| 3 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 4 | And that night of course in The Bar we were all saying , oh god when she jumps into the truck , how fabulous was that , it just makes you want to cheer ; and Boy thought again , well that is how life is , that is how I feel , that is how I feel when I 'm leaving the bar with my husband for the night , my husband-to-be , that 's just what I think when I 'm getting into his car , Goodbye Father , Goodbye . |
| 5 | There was the most profound admiration mingled with her affection for the elder sister who had brought her up ever since their mother 's death , twelve years ago . |
| 6 | The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train . |
| 7 | She bumped into Charlie later on , as she was heading out with her list for the coffee-shop order . |
| 8 | But on another level the linguistic acrobatics which the novel displays provide Mira with verbal strategies that enable her to cope with her fear for the future and her personal situation in the present . |
| 9 | Although , in manners bound , he held and played with her hand for the rest of the drive home , he felt that he could have done instead with a nice talk about hunting . |
| 10 | At last she wrote to Sir John Merchiston , who was a remote cousin , but whom she had known when she came as a débutante to visit here with her family for the hunting . ’ |
| 11 | Loyalty to her clerical superiors , to the Church and all it stood for , battled with her contempt for the way in which the senior clergy had behaved both to herself and to Amy . |
| 12 | It was the first step in the emotional detachment that would dominate her relations with her mother for the rest of her life . |
| 13 | Despite living with her mother for the past eight years , she saw her foster parents every other weekend and went on holidays with them . |
| 14 | Nell pumped up the air , constricting the blood supply , then bled it out again , listening with her stethoscope for the returning pulse . |
| 15 | Braniel woman Mrs Alexander Dodds ( centre ) , was presented with her prize for the ‘ Best Garden in the Braniel Estate ’ by judges Mr Albert Crooks and Housing Executive district manager Mrs Lorraine Campbell . |
| 16 | This multidisciplinary research programme has been developed in response to the growing emphasis on management in British Central Government , with its concern for the more effective performance of functions and the more efficient use of resources . |
| 17 | Due to the very nature of history with its concern for the reconstruction of the past , these problems lie more so with history than with any other discipline . |
| 18 | With its proposal for the granting of a maximum of three days consecutive holiday , it actually worsened some workers ' conditions . |
| 19 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 20 | Now they say the sales likely to fall through along with their hope for the future . |
| 21 | Buddhists with this expectation of Maitri , Jews with their longing for the messianic age , Christians with their hope of the second coming of Christ , can talk together about the golden age ahead — their respective eschatologies , their glimpses of an eternal city , the abiding home of the human spirit . |
| 22 | Shabba Ranks and his enigmatic manager ‘ The Specialist ’ seem to be in a minority with their enthusiasm for the record . |
| 23 | And that 's the way the authorities should be moving forward with their planning for the county . |
| 24 | ‘ I happened to mention that a mutual friend was going to Bibury with his girl for the weekend . |
| 25 | Coupled with his backing for the Beeching report , however , it cost him his seat . |
| 26 | Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour . |
| 27 | No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden . |
| 28 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 29 | I think it 's partly to do with his admiration for the language , and also his background as both a reported and a writer . ’ |
| 30 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |