Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To speed their return , the Poles suggest their workmen might build housing for them at home — with German money . |
| 2 | The state should give substantial financial inducements to mothers of pre-school children to care for them at home ; because of the economic situation , this may , to begin with , have to be on a sliding scale according to need . |
| 3 | In England , also , complaints of the difficulty of finding capable diplomats can be heard until far into the eighteenth century ; and many agreed to serve only to put the government under a moral obligation to find some acceptable post for them at home on their return . |
| 4 | Mr McQueen left , heading south in time to preach next morning at Bracadale , and saying he would wait for them at Ullinish . |
| 5 | Both surprised contemporaries , who had predicted distinguished careers for them at University and Court , when they retired into obscurity , Herbert as a country parson , Ferrar as a Deacon and leader of a family religious community . |
| 6 | The secretary of state meanwhile pledged himself to ensure that discharges of seriously mentally ill people from hospital would take place only when adequate medical and social care was available for them outside hospital . |
| 7 | Jessye Norman , clad in a tricolour , was there to do it for them on TV . |
| 8 | He wanted us to open up for them on tour , and I said , ‘ No , that 's not what we 're into ’ . |
| 9 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 10 | The difference will be that there will be a well motivated , well managed person in place to take personal responsibility for them on behalf of the branch . |
| 11 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 12 | Is this sufficient reason to force all citizens to cower in their homes , watching what proletarian rubbish has been chosen for them on television and being preached at , no doubt , by the likes of Esther Rantzen and Mr Donald ’ Don ’ Mathews ? |
| 13 | Then Richardson suggested Albie work for them on salary-in much the same way , I think to myself , that I am supposedly working for Carmichael . |
| 14 | He wanted to do his best for them with floor to ceiling units in the latest paint effects . |
| 15 | The mid-century architect Robert Morris makes the case for them with fervour : ‘ the Geographer can travel from one Country to another , through various Climates , over Sea and Land … and yet be only retir 'd to his Closet ’ . |
| 16 | Now summer had come Uncle Bean fenced in some of the waste ground for them with wire and they were able to turn the horses out , which made the work far less . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co has put a hard hat onto its HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations and brought out a new Posix-compliant HP-RT 1.0 real-time operating system for them for factory-floor and control applications . |
| 18 | She loves those lacy things you know by and do you remember I I bought for them for Christmas I bought her a tissue box with that beautiful lace cover ? |
| 19 | They were confined to assessment schemes specifically designed for lower attainers or specially adapted for them for example , restricted grade CSE examinations were included . |
| 20 | In the field of equal opportunities , the notion of contract compliance has been borrowed from the USA by some councils : the idea behind this is that a condition of local authority purchase from its suppliers may be expressed in terms of key employment practices , including the recruitment of ethnic minorities and women , and reasonable access for them to promotion within the enterprise . |
| 21 | After all if they had not Christ to worship , there were worse things , many worse things for them to reverence than ‘ stocks and stones ’ , rocks and trees , ‘ merry Middle-earth ’ itself . |
| 22 | Local and regional governments are , potentially , heavy spenders of public funds and complete freedom for them to institute and carry out their own expenditure programmes has come to be regarded in some quarters as subversive of a sufficiently refined power of control over public expenditure overall by central government . |
| 23 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 24 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 25 | A given work of literature is related for them to literature in general , and not to the personality of its author . |
| 26 | In summer 1986 it is planned to take two HND or degree students : their training schemes provide for them to understudy intermediate departmental managers ( including the Head Housekeeper ) for six-week periods . |
| 27 | Social justice , according to Belloc , could be attained only by destroying the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few , which bred inevitable contradictions between the values of self-respect and self-help preached in capitalist society and the material condition of the mass of the population which rendered it impossible for them to practice such principles . |
| 28 | I wish that it were possible to bring more of those who are responsible for them to justice , but , as my hon. Friend knows , because he makes a close study of such matters , it is often impossible for the police to identify those who are responsible . |
| 29 | On a moment 's thought for them to sort of . |
| 30 | The ability to develop new drugs is now greater than most countries ' ability to pay for them without rationing or screening systems — for example , France controls individual prices and Germany has initiated a reference system which pays a basic price for all drugs in the same category . |