Example sentences of "for [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 2 | After a week of caring for them a bond had been formed . |
| 3 | For them a build-up of the primary manifestations of commuters ' syndrome — tertiary dandruff and pyorrhoea of the gums — is regarded as being just a little bit natty . |
| 4 | Yet for them a description of the full circumstances of a misfortune or disaster is not sufficient in itself . |
| 5 | For them a progress of this kind might be acceptable , at least to some extent , in the army . |
| 6 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |
| 7 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
| 8 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 9 | Rather it is for them a process of , existence that has to be daily achieved by individuals through work , that is through the individual mastery over emotions and the skills of wizardry . |
| 10 | For them a week in a tent is the same as six weeks . ’ |
| 11 | Maybe when they come to perform to each other that is for them a time for evaluation and assessment , and I consciously make it one , because it 's important when they produce , when they perform their music they really bare their souls . |
| 12 | It was for me a phantom of literary delight ; a name , though less euphonious , almost as evocative as Samarkand , Trebizond or Persepolis . |
| 13 | JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team . |
| 14 | The university opened up for me a freedom I never knew existed . |
| 15 | Once there was a couple of girls who had had their babies and they 'd say to you , " Change the baby for us while I run upstairs and get so-and-so " or " Will you feed the baby for me a minute ? " or " Can you make up some feeds ? " |
| 16 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 17 | For me a town was a mysterious , rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone . |
| 18 | Maintain 'd for me a saving intercourse |
| 19 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 20 | they are required to do five hours work for you a day |
| 21 | Now , if you 've got the odd spare weekend , a boat and £55,000 to spend , we may have found just the thing for you a fantasy island all of your own , and it 's up for sale right here in the heart of the Central South region . |
| 22 | He has a hard-on for you a yard long . " |
| 23 | ‘ I was in the estate office waiting for you a couple of weeks ago and this firm rang . |
| 24 | No , and somewhere or other I have got for you a copy of the long string the long you know ? |
| 25 | Though Coleridge continued at the King 's School for several months , delighting his mother by pointing out the new master 's faulty knowledge of grammar , in April 1782 Francis Buller , a family friend and later an eminent judge , obtained for him a presentation to Christ 's Hospital in London ( the Blue Coat School ) , ‘ there to be educated , and brought up among other poor children ’ . |
| 26 | Not for him a trip to the cinema , or a visit to the local zoo . |
| 27 | The tale begins with a retarded youth , Robin , whose mother succeeds in arranging for him a marriage with a beautiful young woman , Mahaut . |
| 28 | And he demands that I create for him a mate , a gigantic Eve to give him solace . ’ |
| 29 | The Colonel elaborated on the straightforward business of the reference section of the Ministry preparing for him a dossier on the British nuclear weapons programme . |
| 30 | For him a class was about life chances and included dimensions other than the ownership and non-ownership of the means of production . |