Example sentences of "[pron] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had lost everything , first her father and then her home , to a man who cared nothing for her . |
| 2 | " You can do nothing for her now . |
| 3 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 4 | Immediately she 'd sensed that this was wrong , that there was nothing for her in this office , and that she 'd be at risk if she stayed around a moment longer than was necessary . |
| 5 | There was nothing for her here ; and if this was admitted between them it must swiftly prove an admission with only one exit . |
| 6 | The physical contact between them did nothing for her at all , but it was nice all the same . |
| 7 | It would have done nothing for her already damaged ego if he had barged his way into her bedroom , only to find himself having to wade through a torrent of tears . |
| 8 | Yet if Rohan did marry Antoinette , caring nothing for her , that would make three wretched people instead of one . |
| 9 | It seemed there was nothing for her after all , no warm fire , no nursery comfort , no being needed . |
| 10 | But then he felt nothing for her . |
| 11 | There was nothing for her , now , nothing apart from Harry . |
| 12 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 13 | This lotus-eating life was doing nothing for her . |
| 14 | Damian felt nothing for her . |
| 15 | However , it did absolutely nothing for her . |
| 16 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
| 17 | One reason could be because all around them are utterly characterless , uniform , boring , and unmemorable buildings — nothing for them to stand and stare at , to wonder at and dream of — as there was in the heyday of the great stations . |
| 18 | I mean , I do n't want any players thinking IMG had done nothing for them . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's nothing for them to smile about , ’ I said , quite shocked at their callousness . |
| 20 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 21 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
| 22 | for example , that if a sporting event ends prematurely because of bad weather , or of attendance falls short of anticipated levels , some or all of the casual labour force can be discharged and workers need not be carried when there is nothing for them to do . |
| 23 | She has always in her thoughts her parents ' mean condition and I shall do nothing for them , at least at present , because I will keep the girl humble . |
| 24 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
| 25 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 26 | It performs weddings and baptisms , funerals and services for people who find nothing for them in separate dominations or who ca n't get to church . |
| 27 | Well there 's nothing for them |
| 28 | there is nothing for them . |
| 29 | This can only be good for the G M B and it would hopefully bring on board some , if not all of the doubting Thomases , that have said in the past that we do nothing for them . |
| 30 | There 's no toilets , nothing for them , I mean they 're doing everything in public , I mean it 's not right , it 's making life bad and this is meant to be a holiday resort . |