Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every is going to be female , now does that mean to say , that if no males apply , or if you only advertise for someone female , which I presumably erm , actually going to er run the impossibly do it . |
| 2 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 3 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 4 | Oliver pretended to apologize for her . |
| 5 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 6 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 7 | We are all far too inclined to apologize for ourselves . |
| 8 | Quite as remarkable as the original display of ill temper was the graciousness which prompted him to apologize for it . |
| 9 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 10 | People want to be able to borrow for their homes or businesses in a currency where the interest rate is not exorbitant . |
| 11 | Whatever she [ mother ] needs , it 's there regardless … if her money did n't amount to whatever she needed , she would get it , even if I had to borrow for it , she would get it from somewhere . |
| 12 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 13 | It is unlikely , but some creditors may yet have to sue for their money . |
| 14 | 5.5 Title to the goods comprised in each consignment shall not pass to the Purchaser until the Purchaser has paid their price to the Seller , but , even though title has not passed , the Seller shall be entitled to sue for their price once its payment has become due . |
| 15 | It was asked , when the estate had been entered in accordance with the second will , whether the debtors who had been released in the first will could secure that they should be released even from debt which they had begun to owe after the first will , and if , should the heirs try to sue for it , they could be debarred by a defence of bad faith . |
| 16 | Even if she could be brought to view his actions in his own light , he would remain for her the instrument of death . |
| 17 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 18 | However , in accordance with the conventions of the time , and because of his anticipated death , much would remain for his executors to arrange . |
| 19 | And it 's our intention that that land should remain for our children 's children 's children , that 's the first point . |
| 20 | Family meant a great deal to him , obviously , and she had witnessed for herself his kindness and strength . |
| 21 | The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would . |
| 22 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 23 | Hate for you , my creator , who had made me . |
| 24 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 25 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 26 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 27 | The laity , therefore , became reluctant to invest in their local churches , while an impoverished ecclesiastical establishment had few resources to spare for its buildings . |
| 28 | So lavish there , she 'd none to spare for me ? |
| 29 | Since the thrice-weekly visit of the ferry brought all the island 's mail and supplies , and the post office was very small , the place was crowded , and the postmistress , busily sorting through a pile of mail and newspapers , while exchanging two days ' news in Gaelic with the ferry 's master , had no glance to spare for me . |
| 30 | Luke had turned his attention back to the other women , and none of them had attention to spare for anyone but him . |