Example sentences of "for all the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Rourke was to blame for all the horrors she had to contend with .
2 Kakoo 's life spanned almost a century and her wonderful memory made everything so vivid for all the generations who knew her .
3 At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’
4 Yet , for all the suffering they will cause in Kuwait — killing people as well as thousands of animals — such pollution is not a catastrophe on a planetary scale , as some had predicted .
5 This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her .
6 For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages .
7 But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed .
8 Ca n't you send them a bill for all the ones they 've had in the past ?
9 Charles had chosen to stay in Scotland because it was the perfect time of year for all the activities he enjoyed there .
10 So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another .
11 Originally the compact had stipulated that the Belau government would provide land for sites selected by the military and would compensate landowners , while the USA would provide $5,500,000 for all the land it had an option on .
12 For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion .
13 For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion .
14 The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’
15 ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’
16 In his report , the Chairman Reg Simmons thanked the retiring committee for all the work they had done .
17 He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings .
18 She says I owe so much to my staff for all the work they 've put in to getting this place going again .
19 ‘ I think that is a just reward for all the work which has been carried out , especially over the last two years .
20 But if we demand to be paid for it , if we demand Wages for Housework from the State , we are saying first of all that housework is work … we are saying that we women need money of our own — if we were n't forced to depend on men for money , we would n't have to put their needs before ours , to service them sexually , physically , emotionally … we say TO BRING UP CHILDREN IS WORK and we want a WAGE for all the work we do — whether cleaning offices OR homes , producing electrical parts OR babies .
21 There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data .
22 Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money .
23 not be , for all the work you do !
24 But he soon realized that he was leaving himself too little time for all the work he had to complete , and a regular routine of three days in London ( generally from Tuesday to Thursday ) and four days at Shamley Green was established instead .
25 I would like to thank Miss Freda Scott , Voluntary Services Organiser , for all the work she has done to promote my books , and I look forward to resuming concerts at Ruchill Hospital and elsewhere .
26 Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre .
27 The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage .
28 And we in turn thank her , for all the work she has done for the Society .
29 We have taken all reasonable and proper steps to ensure that proper arrangements have been made for all the holidays which are advertised in this brochure and for excursions as described above and that the suppliers of the various services which will be provided to you as part of the inclusive holiday are efficient , safe and reputable businesses , and that they comply with the local and national laws and regulations of the country in which they provide those services .
30 In that context , the designation by article 5(1) of the Convention of the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question expresses the concern that , because of the close links created by a contract between the parties thereto , it should be possible for all the difficulties which may arise on the occasion of the performance of a contractual obligation to be brought before the same court : that for the place of performance of the obligation .
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