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Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1	Their tactical naivety and non-dynamic ‘ donkeys-and-backs ’ approach made them no match for the super-fit ‘ new age ’ stars from Down Under .
2	There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only .
3	The conduct of the foresters made them a by-word for oppression and extortion .
4	I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China .
5	‘ Better make me a list for Christmas , ’ Wayne said , and he gave her his hand to help her out onto the lakeside track .
6	Bring me a tissue for you ?
7	He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week .
8	Well the government subsidizes them a lot for , for a start and it 's , again it 's the government , the philosophy of the gover of a government either subsidize something or it does n't , does n't it , and it subsidizes what it
9	They 've given me a theatre for a season .
10	The Lord has given me a heart for the Filipino people , although my work here finds me alongside so many other people .
11	It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires .
12	HEATHCLIFF HAD GIVEN me a letter for Catherine , but I decided not to show it to her until Mr Edgar was out of the house .
13	They 've all been joining in singing a Christmas carol but you have given me an idea for your present but you 'll have to hurry though - it 's Christmas Eve .
14	My parents have given me an allowance for the next few weeks .
15	The resources they command make them no match for national and transnational corporations .
16	would you consider me a candidate for one of your courses ?
17	please send me a form for having babies at reduced prices .
18	You know to encourage him t well why not just send them a voucher for seventy f seventy five pounds to go towards an ticket next time they book ?
19	Moreover , they were told that if anything went wrong the United Nations would guarantee them a market for their onions .
20	Mm , well you can buy me a box for Mother 's Day , that 's a good idea in n it ?
21	But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me .
22	Shall I buy you a skirt for the beginning of term ?
23	I 'll buy you an album for your birthday
24	In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife .
25	‘ There 's something special going on when a chap pulls out his chequebook and writes you a cheque for £13,000 right there in the car park , ’ he enthuses .
26	Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college .
27	How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him .
28	Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done .
29	Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because
30	‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special .