Example sentences of "for [pron] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few poor sticks that Albert had collected over the years were fit for nothing but firewood . |
| 2 | You 'll oblige me and fetch a priest here who can do the marrying , and a skinful of wine for everyone and food for a month or more , since we 're settling . |
| 3 | Yet Appendix II ( section 3 ) shows that many people feel that bank loans would be cheaper for them than HP or finance company loans , and better with the manager ‘ a real person ’ they could go to if there was some difficulty over repayments . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be so much healthier for them than city streets . ’ |
| 5 | And would had to make food for them and stuff like that ? |
| 6 | They needed some relative to vouch for them and documentary proof of identity . |
| 7 | For example , when the forty days of mourning a death are over and the women in the family who have foregone food or combing their hair can start a normal life again , it is their female friends and sisters who cook for them and comb and oil their hair . |
| 8 | Sympathy though was maintained for birth parents who through no ‘ fault ’ of their own ( for example , chronic mental illness ) were unable to care for them or visit . |
| 9 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 10 | Tubes are therefore the ideal container for them as air is excluded . |
| 11 | If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism . |
| 12 | Bobby bought it yesterday and lent it to dad cos we bought we bought ourself , well Rob , dad did , I do n't look at them erm they 're too violent for me but dad bought it in Superkey only five ninety nine . |
| 13 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Club before country was how it had to be for me because injury and suspension have left me with only 11 players for Arbroath 's league game with Brechin City on Saturday , ’ said McGrain . |
| 15 | Jill would work for me if Uncle was n't around but as soon as he appeared she did n't care a fig for me and would be off to see what he wanted to do . |
| 16 | I ran two personal bests , 10.33 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.79 seconds for the 200 , which was further encouragement for me and compensation for the traumas I had suffered on the West London track throughout the long , cold , seemingly never-ending winter . |
| 17 | erm , but it cost seven pounds for me and mum |
| 18 | I can do it , I can afford it , I 'm gon na go ahead and I 'm gon na get it for me and devil take the . |
| 19 | They exclaimed and condoled , with — once I had assured them that nothing serious had happened to my brother — a rather charming mixture of sympathy for me and pleasure in the excitement of the news . |
| 20 | Much of the credit for that must go to New Zealander George Simpkin , the man who made a name for himself as coach of Waikato and subsequently as coach of Fiji in the 1987 World Cup . |
| 21 | ACTOR John Thaw has splashed out £425,000 on a fourth home for himself and wife Sheila Hancock . |
| 22 | Oliver poured glasses for himself and Rain . |
| 23 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 24 | Ian Hislop , Merton 's opposing ‘ captain ’ on Have I Got News For You and editor of Private Eye , co-incidentally tells a very different story . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose that would be the easiest thing to do , for you and Dad . |
| 26 | inside it and then for you and mum I bought a little something , it was one pound forty . |
| 27 | LOOK GREAT in wonderfully wearable designer fashions at affordable prices , make-up that 's custom-made for you and underwear that really fits your shape . |
| 28 | But it was different for you and Papa . |
| 29 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 30 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |