Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 2 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 3 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 4 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 5 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 6 | Our Airbus unloading ( or leading ) 300 souls creates a weekly chaotic scrum ; it 's all worth it for the short onward journey to resort . |
| 7 | Many people , both men and women , take up kung fu , not all of them for the same reasons . |
| 8 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
| 9 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 11 | Between 1947 and 1952 he produced no less than 300 short films , many of them for the Canadian Government , and on these merits he was appointed Director of Outside Broadcasts , Features and Documentaries with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1952 . |
| 12 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'm talking too much — it 's having you all to myself for the first time . ’ |
| 14 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 15 | The surveyor will be responsible to you for the stated purpose of the report . |
| 16 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 17 | ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’ |
| 18 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St. |
| 19 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 20 | But a dull flush was creeping up her neck , and colouring her cheeks , and she felt furious with herself for the tell-tale signs of insecurity , for the ease with which the other girl had succeeded in humiliating her … |
| 21 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 22 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 23 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 24 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 25 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |