Example sentences of "lay [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 John 3:16 tells us that we only know what love is because ‘ Jesus Christ laid down his life for us ’ . |
| 2 | Ray Illingworth was surely not exaggerating when he said that Barrington ‘ laid down his life for cricket ’ . |
| 3 | In Churchill 's speech in Zurich in 1946 he laid down his ideas for a ‘ kind of United States of Europe ’ : ‘ The first step in the re-creation of the European family must be a partnership between France and Germany . |
| 4 | This principle of inclusive fitness is perhaps summed up by the answer reportedly given by the distinguished biologist J. B. S. Haldane when asked in a bar whether he would lay down his life for his brother . |
| 5 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 6 | To tradition and instinct , de Castelnau could add personal reasons for wanting to hit hard at the enemy ; three of his sons had already laid down their lives for France . |
| 7 | She would have laid down her life for you . ’ |
| 8 | He heard Izz 's words again and again in his head : She would have laid down her life for you . |
| 9 | He remembered the words of Izz Huett : She would have laid down her life for you . |
| 10 | Once , she would have laid down her life for this man , and the memory of that devotion could still make her soul weep . |
| 11 | I told her that at last I knew what really had happened to my father , her beloved husband , the man who had laid down his life for his country . |
| 12 | Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God . |
| 13 | This chapter aims at motivating godly praying in order that leaders will not be sloppy and selfish , but will be shepherds after the heart of Jesus the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep . |
| 14 | ‘ GREATER LOVE hath no man than that he lays down his jokes for his Prime Minister , ’ a Cabinet minister said in Blackpool on hearing of the sacrifice made by Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 15 | Denis Healey Greater love hath no man than that he lays down his jokes for his Prime Minister . |
| 16 | They had true grievances to settle and were ready to lay down their lives for vengeance . |
| 17 | As Bishop Winiata said , they were farewelling a legend — a man who got things done , a man who was prepared to lay down his life for his friends . |
| 18 | A FORMER British bobby is prepared to lay down his life for superstar Whitney Houston . |
| 19 | 1 John 3:16 goes on to say , ‘ And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers . ’ |
| 20 | Since a version of this argument was repeated in his broadcast talks and made a linchpin of Lewis 's defence of Christianity , it may be profitable to lay down our books for five minutes as he urged us to do when thinking of a world without chloroform and meditate on what he has laid before us . |
| 21 | On April 12 the ANC published a 32-page document laying down its principles for a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in the period after the Second World War , as the Labour government made significant advances in laying down its programme for a welfare state , there was a growing unease about the scale of administrative activity . |