Example sentences of "for [pron] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Walking is good for everyone whatever their age or level of fitness , ’ said Frank Kelly , the Health Promotion Agency 's physical activity programme manager .
2 Then when we fuss and do things for them which they can quite capably do for themselves , we do nothing but contribute to their fear .
3 The Marshal knew that the guard would be putting hand-cuffs and chains back on the prisoners and lighting cigarettes for them which they would smoke with both hands .
4 And while I was waiting for them I I went into a little shop and For some cigarettes , and er me brother y Oh younger brother , we 'd started him up er f he was a plumber .
5 A tall , lanky boy , bespectacled , easy-going , very good-natured , he at all times showed a loyalty and devotion for me which I reciprocated .
6 I mean for me I I 've gone beyond hoping in a way I mean it 's just a question of keeping going from week to week and I do n't know how to measure success .
7 But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk .
8 He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like .
9 The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love .
10 ‘ Especially , ’ Angelica said , ‘ when you 're trying to make out a form for somebody whom you know wo n't appear anywhere in the records . ’
11 With his experience of an old university and a less old university , with two different systems , he was able to frame for himself what he valued in the English university .
12 And so what we did , we ran this particular course , erm , for which we we received a fee , but it came back as expenses area , was n't under the same arrangement as the rest of it .
13 ‘ The misbehaviour of boys and girls ’ , said its report on Youth Astray in 1946 , ‘ is mainly the outcome of conditions , social , economic , and to some extent hereditary , for which they themselves can not be blame .
14 oh right , and you get all the blokes standing round the bar with a pint in their hand , eyeing up the woman , looking for which one they 're gon na move in on do n't ya ?
15 Every multi-syllable word has one syllable heavily stressed , but there is no easily discernible pattern for which one it should be .
16 for which one it shows I 'm afraid , my I ask for er if it 's required certificate for counsel maybe required for taxation later on .
17 She realised that there would be no light-hearted understanding in Cramer of actions for which she herself could find no easily articulated justification .
18 The frailty of human memory is such that it is by no means uncommon for a delegate to criticize fiercely the very rule for which he himself was responsible a year or two before !
19 Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ?
20 I have great things in store for you which I will tell you about when I come back from America . ’
21 BELVILLE : [ aside ] To what numberless mean things did not this unmanly passion subject me ? [ to PAMELA ] My sister Davers would have had you live with her , but she would not do for you what I am resolved to do if you continue faithful and obliging .
22 The objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from we 'll come back as I said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you .
23 She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’
24 Finesse 's new hairsprays come in aerosol and non-aerosol spray , so there 's one for you whatever your preference .
25 Most people ensure that they spend their lives working for something which they think has a future , and which will provide the sort of life and opportunity that they wish for themselves and their dependants .
26 Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted .
27 When faced with a request for a garden seat , similar to the one on a recent DIY front cover , I searched high and low for one which I could buy , rather than make myself .
28 They had also sent knitted comforts to Eileen , and Anne had made a balaclava helmet for herself which she wore in bed as well as a pair of her father 's socks and a cardigan over her pyjamas .
29 A few weeks later , Mrs Wilson discovered for herself what she felt must have been the reason for the heart attack .
30 If the learner can be guided through the programme , and can begin to delineate for herself what she needs to know , then the knowledge and skills developed should become more relevant and an inquiring attitude should be strengthened in the learner .
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