Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One bird had frustrated me for most of the trip . |
| 2 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 3 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 4 | Do join Kirsty , Lloyd , Kathleen Long and me for more of the same but different at five to one tomorrow . |
| 5 | Erm , on the grounds that the substance he was dealing with was complicated , and I think , erm , colleague is right to reprove me for some of the language . |
| 6 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 7 | Human rights church groups and surviving inmates accused police of carrying out deliberate and systematic executions , blaming them for most of the deaths ( which they put at between 200 and 400 , as against an official toll of 111 inmates killed and 35 inmates and 22 police officers wounded ) . |
| 8 | It can not see how good or bad it is in reaching its objectives unless it engages with them for most of the manager 's time . |
| 9 | That 's an er an expenses form and you know bring this information with you to the in-house course , the three days in-house erm because they 'll ask you for that at the end of . |
| 10 | How much did they charge you for that down the pub ? |
| 11 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
| 12 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 13 | He wondered what he had done to make his parents want to get rid of him for most of the summer holidays . |
| 14 | In 1988 he moved again , this time to Lotus , but he had to be content with watching the McLaren duo of Alain Prost and fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna in front of him for most of the season . |
| 15 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 16 | Never before has a member of the Royal Family stepped so far out of line and the Queen is not the only one who blames her for many of the misfortunes which have befallen the House of Windsor this year . |
| 17 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 18 | That feeling of guilt sat heavily with her for most of the drive to Prague . |
| 19 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 20 | He seems nevertheless to have come very close to substituting his view of the statutory power and the discretions within it for that of the minister . |
| 21 | I could hardly hear it for all of the babies crying … six … seven … eight … nine … ten … eleven … twelve . |
| 22 | I do it for all of the community . |
| 23 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 24 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 25 | Jazzbeaux had been out of it for most of the fighting , but she could tell from the leavings that things had got serious . |
| 26 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |