Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage . |
| 2 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 3 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 4 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 5 | These are the pictures which interest me most for their complex attitude to the feminine . |
| 6 | This is not as frightful as it may sound : with self-build projects the council inspectors are usually very helpful , although you should n't badger him/her relentlessly for advice , and employing reputable tradesmen should eliminate any problems with outside labour . |
| 7 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 8 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh well , serves me right for being nosey . |
| 10 | I 'll have a bath an' all an' my brither-in-law 'll see me right for the gear . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That serves me right for going out to fetch it fresh . ’ |
| 12 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 13 | I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done . |
| 14 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 15 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 16 | It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation . |
| 17 | To force cyclists to lock and unlock their bikes , detach and reattach shopping bags , lift off children and carry them perhaps for some distance , are all seen as ways of penalising cyclists and by implication encouraging the convenience of car use . |
| 18 | Gabriel held me together for so long . |
| 19 | A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years . |
| 20 | ‘ The archbishop can not compensate me enough for slavery in Salzburg … |
| 21 | " It wo n't leave me enough for my yuletide cake . " |
| 22 | As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise : |
| 23 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 24 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 25 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 26 | Rounding the bend from the top path down towards the stable she was brandishing a stick , beating the cows ' dripping rumps and cursing them aloud for refusing to hurry . |
| 27 | We tested chickens by restraining them gently for 15 seconds and then timing their recovery from their trance . |
| 28 | On a good day ( for the parents , that is ) children can be absorbed for hours in the imaginative construction of a world which depends on them alone for its realization and reward . |
| 29 | Secure the wire ends by twisting them together for a short distance to prevent the turns trying to unwind themselves . |
| 30 | But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity . |