Example sentences of "[subord] for [art] [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd always thought it would be embarrassing to have a man undress you , especially the suspenders which are so ugly and comic , but I helped , and except for the girdle which must be the most resistant , unromantic garment since the chastity belt , it was all easy and delightful . |
| 2 | Her fear was more than that for her own life , more than for the way she might die . |
| 3 | This would result in muscular development up to the clavicles for a man , preventing a ‘ droopy ’ looking chest , while for a woman it would cause a build-up of tissue leading into her cleavage , thus emphasising her bust . |
| 4 | The importance of diet in this group of patients is that for some diet alone will suffice , while for the rest there must be a good dietary compliance if control is to be optimal at a steady weight whether using oral agents or insulin . |
| 5 | But for a time I could not do that to Georg . |
| 6 | ‘ But for the hurricane we would have a third quarter profit of almost £22m and a return to profits in the nine months , ’ says Robertson . |
| 7 | But for the woodwork he 'd have been on the score sheet . |
| 8 | Later , we will be looking at ways of expanding our vocabulary in adventurous ways , but for the moment I would like to make recommendations based on my observations over many years of student limitations , mainly in a diatonic field . |
| 9 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 10 | There was a feeling there had been a time when you needed both , but for the future it would help in general , and offer much better leadership if you were to create one body , and since you 're statutorily obliged to have a J C C , why not make it , actually make it work , so it meets more often , and it actually actively involves erm , er , er , er , at the political level , players at the political level . |
| 11 | Such an historical perspective must be our long-term goal , even though for the present we can at best only hypothesize about the nature of the development processes at work . |
| 12 | As for a mother it can not remember . |
| 13 | Truly I make but a stammering companion , I have no graces , and as for the wit you may have perceived in me when we met , you saw , you must have seen , only the glimmerings and glister of your own brilliance refracted from the lumpen surface of a dead Moon . |
| 14 | It 's performance is shattering , as for the money you would be entitled to expect . |
| 15 | As for the rest I can make it up . |
| 16 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 17 | And as for the way he used to order you around — ’ |