Example sentences of "[pron] for our " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masturbation , for instance , does nothing for our partner and tends to make us independent of our partner . |
| 2 | So we ended up with nothing for our trouble . |
| 3 | I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend . |
| 4 | The faint aroma of stale mackerel still hung around and did nothing for our personal charisma either . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a figment of the imagination by those who want to dominate ITV , who care nothing for our regional character and who seek to shift control of our operations from Cardiff and Bristol to London or Birmingham . |
| 6 | Nothing for our boy , just twenty five thousand sausages each day . |
| 7 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 8 | ‘ There is a God , and He 's punishing me for our sin , punishing me through Denny . ’ |
| 9 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 10 | If the animals had in any proper sense rights , we should no more be entitled to put them to death without a fair trial … than to torture them for our amusement . |
| 11 | ‘ We thought they were most unusual and attractive and could n't resist them for our own house , ’ says Sue . |
| 12 | It 's opened this week … local firms are out in force , so let's go and join them for our Friday Feature |
| 13 | around or over the world in 30 days of driving … that 's the dream of two local motoring enthusiasts who are taking their old morgan car on the longest … the toughest rally of them all … they 've been getting themselves into gear in the Malverns and we 're off there to join them for our Friday feature |
| 14 | If we define accountability as ‘ being answerable ’ to someone for our actions , then to whom are we answerable ? |
| 15 | It is we who do not know , and like Peter we can be too sure of ourselves for our own good . |
| 16 | This was important because the ruling class ( and the state which was its instrument ) did not merely rule by coercion — which for our purposes means in particular by punishing people for breaking its laws . |
| 17 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ Follow the laws of the game ! ’ he said , eagerly preparing himself for our fight . |
| 19 | ‘ Sir , ’ they say , ‘ thank God there is someone … restored my faith in human nature … performed a signal service … struck a blow for common sense and ordinary human decency … exposed the hypocrisy of those who for our sins are set in authority over us … expressed what the vast majority of people fed … spoken up for the minority whose views are never taken into account … ’ |
| 20 | Thank you for our homes , our mums , dads , brothers and sisters and our families . |
| 21 | Thank you for our pets and all the flowers and trees . |
| 22 | 20 FINALE — THANK YOU FOR OUR 40 YEARS |
| 23 | Thank you for our er , |
| 24 | Thank you for our breakfast on mummy 's birthday . |
| 25 | plants up and everything for our normal you know , rock nights , I mean we just have the wrought iron up and whatever , but |
| 26 | Alright I 'll I 'll undertake to come up with something for our next meeting . |
| 27 | In actions in contract and tort , there is a general right of appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Supreme Court Act 1981 , s.16 ) , which is excluded in relation to particular matters of which the only significant one for our purposes is the exclusion of a right of appeal against a decision of the High Court allowing an extension of time for appealing . |
| 28 | The year has not been an easy one for our Italian business . |
| 29 | Because it 's a month since they sent me a quote and actually we want a big one for our lounge but |
| 30 | We for our part are unaware of any statement of national policy that requires sparsely populated counties to be earmarked for development . |