Example sentences of "[pron] by [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 2 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 3 | Whenever you give clarification or provide information four times out of ten someone else will follow you by doing the same and three times out of ten someone else will follow you by asking for more . |
| 4 | In October 1987 , when share prices crashed around the world , Hong Kong disgraced itself by closing for four days to protect local speculators . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , some of their riders then did them no favours whatsoever by steering for the rail and getting them penned in the pack . |
| 6 | He 's a world-famous scientist searching for a cancer cure , she 's the spiky assistant who proves herself by falling for him . |
| 7 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 8 | Mrs Lee , 43 , formerly the secretary of the club at the Golden Lion Hotel , Barnard Castle , began taking the cash entrusted to her by paying for a telephone bill . |
| 9 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |
| 10 | In Britain , massive libel awards have abolished free speech where criticism of , or reporting about , rich people is concerned , because a rich man can bankrupt anyone by suing for libel , win or lose . |
| 11 | Like most works that over-reach themselves by striving for unattainable seriousness they are probably simply bad . |
| 12 | Only by being more actively involved in identifying issues , organizing action , and thereby helping themselves by fighting for their own rights , can older people hope to improve matters . |
| 13 | but you you ca n't they ca n't they can offer you that job right but it 's qua you have to qualify yourself by going for training . |
| 14 | What they 're actually asking for is that whether we would be able to help them by arranging for a loan on their behalf , they would service the debt at this time , so I might suggest chairman that we revert it to the finance committee for |
| 15 | I would have thought that we could request the fenc the fencing and tell them our plans for the fencing and not lose anything by asking for them |