Example sentences of "[det] [subord] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short messages from home , the frustrating glimpses of Jill and my parents on video still spurred me to hold on , for them as much as for me . |
| 2 | Lucker asks this question for himself as much as for me . |
| 3 | Ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia , for their meat as much as for their feathers and hides . |
| 4 | The real breakthrough will come when the pot plants grown from rainforest seed are sold as such — when customers in down- town LA choose their purchases for the help they give to commercial community-based conservation as much as for their leaf colours . |
| 5 | It was for his style as much as for his opinions that mossadeq became notorious in the West . |
| 6 | All but for her goodness and her grace . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We do not believe the public would have been told at all but for us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 8 | You are unselfish and care for other people more than for yourself ; you 're also outstanding and original in what you do . |
| 9 | The book highlights such subjects as animism , Jewish , Christian and Hellenistic ‘ mythologies ’ ; the realities of health , sickness and death ; of nature — its seasons ( notably Spring and Winter ) and its glories , as well as its decadence ( we find no evidence for Djwa 's contention that ‘ the book moves through cycles of winter death followed by spring rebirth , ’ any more than for her ‘ structural myth ’ or ‘ controlling Orpheus myth ’ which form the foundation for her critique of the book ) ; of rationality and madness ; loneliness and intimacy ; of truth and treachery , prayer and protest ; of prophet and priest , doctors and teachers , angels and devils ; freedom and slavery , sainthood and sinning , wonder and despair , war and peace , love and loss , beauty and brutality ; regret and humour ; sensuality and discipline , joy and sadness ; of the greatness of God and his creation , and the pitiful smallness and incompetency of man ; the city and the breadth of nature itself : sea and air , rivers and countryside ; savagery and urbanity ; loss and its disappointing pangs . |
| 10 | It is clear that what Bukharin had in mind here was that the ‘ town ’ must provide consumer goods and means of production to agriculture on such a scale as to make it worthwhile for the peasants to produce more than for their own immediate needs . |
| 11 | More than for 'im . |
| 12 | For you , perhaps even more than for me . ’ |
| 13 | Hotspur had promised her a fair deliverance , vouching for the prince no less than for himself , and in his promise she believed as in the mass . |
| 14 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 15 | This here is the type of net they use down in Windermere — same as for everything else , really , pike , perch , trout — but this , here , is the tackle we use in Buttermere for fishing the char . ’ |
| 16 | Beyond that , we 've got to assume that the main source for instruments was the same as for everybody else who lived out of the range of urban merchandising , and that 's catalogues : Montgomery Ward , Sears & Roebuck and places like that . |
| 17 | Pricing has yet to be decided , but BT is aiming for the look and feel of the service to be the same as for its existing messaging services . |
| 18 | Despite the economy in Australia being much th same as for our businesses in other parts of the world , we still managed to achieve our budget with over 500 lot sales . |