Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 2 | Your worships , Mr works for Wallbank aerials in Worley and he works for them as an engineer his vehicle was erm something that he did use for work , but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er , replace it and so he 's having to be erm er , chauffeured by the company to do his er his work . |
| 3 | Your Worships Mr works for in Worley and he works for them as an engineer . |
| 4 | I wonder if it counts for anything at all when it comes to expressing more profound thought . |
| 5 | She says she needs to gather up , in her post-modern skirt , all the creative , affirmative , intellectual parts of her childhood ; she needs to know how her folk survived , and when she looks for them in England , on TV , at the theatre , in art galleries , in advertising , they 're invisible . |
| 6 | What 's the midwife 's job when she cares for you after the birth ? |
| 7 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 8 | Except that money , in Darcy 's Utopia , will count for nothing : just as it counts for nothing in Moscow today : where pockets are stuffed with roubles but there is nothing to buy . |