Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright , not use slang , show belief in the way he or she asks for recommendations |
| 2 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 3 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
| 4 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 5 | Now Gorman is thinking of moving Reid into midfield where he starred for RBAI . |
| 6 | The impact threw up vast quantities of material into the upper atmosphere , where it stayed for months or years , blotting out the light of the Sun ; some of this material came from the comet , some from the surface of the Earth . |
| 7 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 8 | droopy draws the one that I wanted for ages droopy draws . |
| 9 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 10 | The handful of stories that she wrote for children were remarkable for their strong sense of place and feeling for landscapes she had never seen . |
| 11 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 12 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 13 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 14 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 15 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 16 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 17 | Oh aye you get to know people that you 've for years and years . |
| 18 | Do you know the cost of the provision that you make for children with special educational needs , particularly the employment of specialist teachers and ancillaries ? |
| 19 | If the firm that you work for closes down , it will usually be beyond dispute that you are redundant . |
| 20 | So you have to set the boundaries for friends , in just the same way that you do for parents . |
| 21 | ‘ Less of your lip , Prescott , and see that you report for latrines duty straight after breakfast . ’ |
| 22 | One feature of tendon repair of which there is no doubt , is that it takes longer than you think for tendons to repair well . |
| 23 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 24 | Er we 'd dearly like to get it up to three figures again obviously because a amongst other things this affects the number of representatives that we get for conferences and so on . |
| 25 | In terms of the rule that we need for branches , I 've already said the General Secretary agrees with me , that this happens often . |
| 26 | If we have only indicators what his methodological reasoning suggests is that we look for patterns among indicators which might suggest that we have found something of substance and significance . |
| 27 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 28 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 29 | One way is to use two factors , rather in the way that we did for documents , and these two factors will be called ‘ participation ’ and ‘ control ’ . |
| 30 | And than they stayed for months , indeed years , until driven out in pain and indignity . |