Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It wo n't make any difference to my feelings for you , ’ she insisted . |
| 2 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 3 | Clare described the kestrel 's hover as it hangs ‘ in the sky on narrow pointed quivering wings ’ , and its plummet to earth : ‘ The small hawk like a shot drops from the sky/ close to my feet for mice and creeping things . ’ |
| 4 | He points to the puddle of dark at my feet , giggling , raising an eyebrow to my friends for support . |
| 5 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 6 | ‘ I was a swine to my parents for years , until I realised they were only doing the best and — the shock of it ! — that they were human too ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I set no bounds to my ambitions for Britain' |
| 8 | In his final set-piece speech of the campaign at a Wembley rally , the Prime Minister said : ‘ I set no bounds to my ambitions for this country or its people . |
| 9 | I held her hand to my lips for a moment . |
| 10 | I am not able to eat and talk at the same time , so I apologized to my neighbours for this . |
| 11 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 12 | I would imagine , in my mind , that something 's gon na happen to my sisters for her not to be able to see it . |
| 13 | I 've been very fortunate to be able to become part of your industry , to see part of your contribution to my patients for the great tomorrow . |
| 14 | I felt grateful to my publishers for their insistence that we guard against any change of mind by my secret collaborators — unlikely as that had seemed in the frigid era of Brezhnev . |
| 15 | I am very grateful to Dounreay for making it all possible , to the Library for their help with my research and to my colleagues for their assistance . ’ |
| 16 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 17 | However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies . |
| 18 | Banner Residential Properties draws shareholders ' attention to the RICS requirement in the notes to its accounts for the year ended 31 March 1992 . |
| 19 | ( A newly restored B-17 fuselage , which was waiting to be mated to its wings for painting b |
| 20 | In effect , country A fixed its exchange rate against that of country B by closely controlling the amount of country B 's foreign exchange available to its residents for trade and other purposes . |
| 21 | The cost of the tunnel has risen by £2.2bn to £7bn — forcing Eurotunnel to return to its bankers for fresh loans . |
| 22 | Log-It wish to apologise to its customers for any inconvenience this move may have caused . |
| 23 | The Saint James ' Fine Food Restaurant at Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire has been offering kangeroo steaks to its customers for ten months . |
| 24 | Reports in mid-July suggested that the government faced continued opposition to its preparations for a national convention to draft a new Constitution [ see p. 38913 ] . |
| 25 | In general , safety and environmental benefits are sought in the living areas and through traffic is deflected on to those roads better suited to its needs for speed and high capacity . |
| 26 | In addition , your legal advisers will be responsible for the drafting of the offer document and associated documentation and for advice as to its contents for the purposes of satisfying the requirements of the London Stock Exchange and the City Code . |
| 27 | Much of the critical attention paid to its implications for special education has centred on the procedures by which children can be excluded from the ‘ common entitlement ’ through the disapplications and modifications permitted by the Act ( Norwich 1989 , Tomlinson 1990 ) . |
| 28 | This is a topic of interest in its own right to geographers , planners , economists and sociologists , in addition to its implications for electoral change . |
| 29 | Until 1989 , the green form scheme and the duty solicitor scheme were administered by the Law Society , as an adjunct to its responsibilities for civil legal aid . |
| 30 | The South Korean authorities wrote to AI in response to its appeals for imprisoned artist Hong Song-dam and publisher Chang Ui-gyun . |