Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 2 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 3 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 4 | I would , I would hope that as erm , as a committee we can support all these objectives , er , it does give me some cause for concern , that our own government is objecting to these provisions . |
| 5 | My choice of topic for this evening 's lecture gave me some cause for hesitation . |
| 6 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 7 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 8 | Said Mr Marshall : ‘ Having been forced to retire from business I nevertheless retained my unbounded enthusiasm for work and community service . |
| 9 | Said Mr Marshall : ‘ Having been forced to retire from business I nevertheless retained my unbounded enthusiasm for work and community service . |
| 10 | Anyway , this mahogany/maple combination is currently my favourite recipe for guitar construction . |
| 11 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 12 | What was more , the couple of times I had rung my antenatal teacher for reassurance in late pregnancy after a brief stay in hospital had been free too . |
| 13 | Finally , my early nomination for Referee of the Year is my old friend Derek Bevan , who has built on his excellent World Cup final with a great Calcutta Cup game and an even better England v Ireland . |
| 14 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 15 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 16 | That I too have done my little bit for pollution ? |
| 17 | In the last two years of the war I was in orbit visiting every station and squadron in my endless quest for Pathfinders . |
| 18 | Perhaps I am abnormal in my endless fetish for light and patterns , but I do n't give a damn . |
| 19 | I kept quiet about my sneaking affection for grolla — the grappa-laced coffee they serve in rustic wooden loving cups — and the Bar Roma 's wonderfully enveloping sofas , and tagged along . |
| 20 | ‘ My present favourite for prettiness — and the kids love them — are little fairy cakes . |
| 21 | Being used like that accounted for my poor figures for England between 1986 and 1989 — I went through one series against Pakistan playing in four Tests without getting a wicket . |
| 22 | My first-class debut for Natal in December 1988 I scored a century in the first innings . |
| 23 | " Re U 128 — representatives this Headquarters will arrive yours 25 May for discussion policy on lines suggested as follows : |
| 24 | ‘ Fifty per cent of my gross margin for cereals will come from area compensatory payments and set aside . ’ |
| 25 | She took great pleasure in watching my growing admiration for Estella , and my unhappiness when Estella laughed at me . |
| 26 | My initial interview for Peace Corps was from a pay' phone in a theatre lobby during a coffee break . |
| 27 | True , if understood to relate to candidates as persons : my third preference for Brawny can never count against my first preference for Beefy . |
| 28 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 29 | ‘ Because I was injured in my first game for Villa and then kept breaking down in training , I never had the chance to get sharp and readjust to the speed of the English game . |
| 30 | I got four in my first game for Newcastle against Leeds and nine in my first five matches . |