Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the [det] " in BNC.

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1 We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in .
2 James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife .
3 I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself .
4 I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff .
5 Many people , both men and women , take up kung fu , not all of them for the same reasons .
6 All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another .
7 The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk .
8 Cheers ( Channel 4 ) CHEERS and thank you for the many memories .
9 I 'll deliver when you for the half an hour when you come back .
10 You can adopt an ant for £20 — which some people may consider a little extreme , considering a scorpion will sting you for the same amount .
11 You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one .
12 Now the eight twelves are killing you for the same reason . ’
13 ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’
14 I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal .
15 John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same .
16 John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same .
17 Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her .
18 ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA .
19 can spoil it for the many .
20 That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose .
21 I support the intention of the Bill and its important deterrent aspects , and I shall support it for the same reason as the hon. Member for Oxford , East , but I must confess that I do so with some reluctance at this stage .
22 It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons .
23 undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again .
24 The many spoiling it for the few yet again .
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