Example sentences of "for [noun prp] [pron] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 But for Strauss himself it represented a stage in what was to become an anguished and sometimes bitter drifting away from even this somewhat diluted and Idealist ‘ Christianity ’ .
2 ‘ He can do for Lazio what I did for Napoli , ’ said the dethroned Argentine superstar , still talking excitedly yesterday about Gazza 's wonder goal on Tuesday night .
3 Boswell employs over a thousand words to describe the Monboddo visit , which began around mid-day , and ended when they had to leave for Aberdeen which they did not reach until late that night .
4 Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted .
5 I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it .
6 Next morning I was a new woman , quite revitalised and waiting contritely for JTR who I had summoned back up from Edinburgh to get on with the Lewis Ramble .
7 Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base .
8 I therefore approached Herbert for an allowance for John which he refused . ’
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