Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 3 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
| 4 | The Scots failed to qualify from their pool for the main competition and suffered a heavy defeat in the plate but , as they left their hotel , there were words of consolation . |
| 5 | That had always been the plan and was not some presbyterian purge on behalf of the coaches Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey in retribution for Scotland 's showing in the tournament , where , for the second successive week , they failed to qualify from their pool for the main competition and suffered a heavy defeat in the plate . |
| 6 | Seeing his eyes move away from her mouth for the first time since the whole affair had begun , she shook her shoulders so that her full , rounded gourds trembled like jelly . |
| 7 | This was clearly a departure from her script for the evening . |
| 8 | Just before the onset of her fatal illness , Lizzie recorded a superb rendering of the North-east witch ballad Alison Gross , got from her father for the Grampian Television film Journey to a Kingdom . |
| 9 | More than two years after New York City cut 35% from its funding for the arts , The Brooklyn Museum continues to suffer the consequences . |
| 10 | On Thursday Mrs Marian Flowers , CHC member and herself a diabetic , criticised the district for again omitting any such appointment from its budget for the 1992–93 financial year . |
| 11 | When the heir had done homage to the king , it was usual for the Justice of the Forest , on receipt of the appropriate writ , to take from him security for the payment of relief , and then to give him seisin of his Forest bailiwick ; the king 's escheator was ordered at the same time to hand over his lands to him , those appurtenant to his forestership , and whatever others he might hold in chief by other service . |
| 12 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 13 | One was an elderly , rather exhausted man who was unable to produce either assistant or wife and had to borrow a lady from his neighbour for the purpose . |
| 14 | England boss Graham Taylor yesterday excluded the Rangers ' midfielder from his squad for the vital World Cup qualifying match against Turkey in Izmir on 31 March . |
| 15 | England boss Graham Taylor yesterday excluded the Rangers midfielder from his squad for the vital World Cup qualifying match against Turkey in Izmir on 31 March . |
| 16 | However , this season he has been nothing like as unequivocal in the tackle and , dating from his display for the Barbarians versus the Wallabies , he was patently losing ground with the powers that be . |
| 17 | The New College book was chosen because it was one that had been donated to the College , no less than a Wykeham Professor , with others from his library for the use of future generations of scholars . |
| 18 | On Monday night he rang from his car for the score . |
| 19 | On Monday he rang from his car for the score . |
| 20 | Squatting down on the floor like a peasant , Gaveston began the dark satanic ritual learnt from his mother for the total destruction of his enemies . |
| 21 | But apart from our passion for the sport , we share nothing on a personal level . |
| 22 | Subtract these calories from your total for the day and make up the rest from other meals . |