Example sentences of "to [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way , therefore , as they had turned to primitives for finding the opposite of capitalist relations of production , they turned to them for a form of family which was the opposite of the capitalist family . |
| 2 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
| 3 | There are two aspects of the lift to which comment and criticism constantly return and , before leaving the technological issues to the mercy of future critics , we should return to them for a moment . |
| 4 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 5 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 6 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 7 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 8 | Most fish would not be seriously affected by temperatures somewhat outside this range especially if only exposed to them for a short time . |
| 9 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 10 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 11 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 12 | Voluntary Severance that staff will have individual voluntary Severance options made available to them for a limited period . |
| 13 | She talked of her children , far away in the north at Alnwick castle with their household , and of the late Spring when she would take her husband home to them for a brief visit . |
| 14 | Write to them for a copy to : MCS , 9 Gloucester Road , Ross-on-Wye , Herefordshire , HR9 5BU , enclosing a sae at least 10cm x 21cm . |
| 15 | Carlos and Francisco chatted to them for a while , but then Carlos had to patrol his area , which to him meant strolling around , able to approach and compliment all the prettiest girls , and subsequently trying to fit them into his tight evening schedule ! |
| 16 | We have n't spoken to them for a while ? |
| 17 | If therefore , the tribute was agreed by bargain at ¾ or 15/ in the pound the men would have this amount paid to them for every pound value of whatever they produced . |
| 18 | They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’ |
| 19 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
| 20 | ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’ |
| 21 | All fears are of the material world and we have to give some thought to them for the sake of our ambition and our dependants and our own physical well being , but they are not transcendent things and have no meaning there . |
| 22 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 23 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 24 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 25 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |
| 26 | If anyone collects old aquarium stuff and they would like to contact me , I 'm willing to sent it to them for the cost of the postage , as it is far too small for any of my set-ups . |
| 27 | One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’ |
| 28 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 29 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 30 | Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire . |