Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ . |
| 3 | Once again , employers showed little enthusiasm for them . |
| 4 | Got that money for me ? |
| 5 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 6 | Lucy had already decided that this would be the wisest course for her to take . |
| 7 | Oh well it 's gon na be a right change for us in that room int it ? |
| 8 | Tip is a firm believer in fate , and in 1961 the finger pointed in the right direction for him . |
| 9 | It 'll involve us developing visiting schemes , under eight services , helping families in different ways , improving services for disabled children , developing family centres , and a new specific — this 'll might amuse you this — a new specific responsibility for us to inspect and register the care practices of private schools in the County , and Oxfordshire has got the biggest number of those in the whole country . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't make that decision for you , ’ he said raggedly . |
| 11 | ‘ Here is a strange story for you , Um Yusef . |
| 12 | Christ borne that judgement for us and we have passed from death into life life ! |
| 13 | Joseph Gandy , who claims in 1805 that his designs originate ‘ in the humane desire of increasing the comforts and improving the condition of the Labouring Poor ’ , makes little provision for them . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 15 | German civilians especially suffered mistreatment at the hands of the Red Army in the East , but there was little sympathy for them after six years of war . |
| 16 | There was little sympathy for them from club officials , with ‘ apathy ’ one of the words used to describe their attitude . |
| 17 | With a lot of misgivings , I eventually withdrew — and within weeks , as new opportunities opened up , it was clear this had been the right decision for me . |
| 18 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that diesel was the right decision for us , ’ he says . |
| 19 | It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay . |
| 20 | Zborowski told Carco how he had taken fifteen canvases to a merchant the other morning and wanted very little money for them , but the merchant sent him away … |
| 21 | And we work hard , we get very little money for it , we wait to get to the top and it never happens . |
| 22 | The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams , have made an emotional plea for him to come home . |
| 23 | She 's just got him out of prison after making all that money and going through all that shit for him , he finally comes home , and all he wants to do is watch the match on the telly . |
| 24 | But if you 're prepared to take the risk of equity investment for the reward of a tax-free return , a PEP could be just the right route for you . |
| 25 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
| 26 | So far , the personnel mentioned in relation to ward teaching are those with little or no specific preparation for it . |
| 27 | Local and regional governments are , potentially , heavy spenders of public funds and complete freedom for them to institute and carry out their own expenditure programmes has come to be regarded in some quarters as subversive of a sufficiently refined power of control over public expenditure overall by central government . |
| 28 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 29 | It 's a strange experience for me … ’ |
| 30 | It must have been a strange experience for him , Rufus had thought , knowing he owned all sorts of things but not knowing quite what or where they were . |