Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that for tie problems such as ‘ 1+1 ’ , ‘ 2+2 ’ , response times were very quick and similar for the more and less able children . |
| 2 | Mm , the lady at the checkout when I got Tim 's that time , do you remember , cos all the birthdays come together and I saw that for Tim so it make him one |
| 3 | She realised that for George and Elizabeth to take such a firm line , Sarah must have made more of a nuisance of herself to George than she herself had noticed . |
| 4 | She said that for mothers struggling to bring up children , smoking was seen as a way of surviving . |
| 5 | It seemed that for girls lacking a source of selfesteem in their home lives , schools could be particularly important in this respect . |
| 6 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
| 7 | He declared that for Albania to realize its stated ambition of joining the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , " tangible proof " of reform was needed . |
| 8 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |
| 9 | He wrote to Stead in April 1928 that he felt that for reasons of compensation he required the most ascetic and violent form of discipline , and discussed having to come to terms with celibacy as a Christian . |
| 10 | He did n't want them either , but he felt that for Timmy 's sake she should take what was on offer . |
| 11 | He felt that for staff outside Government division the future looked alarming . |
| 12 | It appeared that for exemplars of the generally risky junctions risk ratings were positively correlated with P(A) . |
| 13 | Over the years , Dauntless had become used to loneliness , but he suspected that for Cleo it was a new condition which she was having trouble getting used to . |