Example sentences of "[det] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caring for him became an almost full-time job because he could do so little for himself ; and it was difficult for Mary and Jim to go out together , especially as her father grew less able to get around , and he needed a great deal of help at home . |
| 2 | But he could do little for them ; and now he is gone . ’ |
| 3 | Many names said the plan did too little for them ; they will continue to sue . |
| 4 | Owen was no fundamentalist , and many of his contemporaries ( especially those working in museums , and classifying vertebrates ) saw little for them in Darwinism : the family trees were hypothetical , and there was no independent evidence of real rather than ideal relationships . |
| 5 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 6 | That spat did little for her confidence as she faced a battery of cameras waiting outside Goldsmiths Hall . |
| 7 | The Wedding Present had managed themselves with a satisfying degree of success until Hallin 's arrival and it would appear that at first there was little for him to actually do . |
| 8 | The singing , the pomp and the pageantry may have galvanised Welsh emotions , but it did little for their skills or tactical awareness . |
| 9 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 10 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 11 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 12 | His book of verse , Lucida Intervalla ( 1679 ) , does little for his reputation as a poet . |
| 13 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 14 | There was little for his comfort . |
| 15 | He 's a doctor , a Chinese guy , works out in the New Territories , saves lives on a daily basis and gets paid very little for his considerable sacrifices and hard work . |
| 16 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 17 | One of the reasons why farmers consume so much water is that they pay very little for it — between 1 and 2 per cent of the price paid in cities . |
| 18 | Even in July or August it is possible not only to find accommodation but to pay very little for it . |
| 19 | Admittedly , 200 years of wandering the earth in search of vengeance does little for anyone 's hairstyle or personal charm , but what on earth did that first Gittel see in her ? |
| 20 | The reality is that the Peshawar government as yet has little for anyone to recognise . |
| 21 | His attractive wife got out wearing too little for my ease . |
| 22 | Altogether there were thirty-eight certificates , each for somebody who had died in the parish of Bad Schwarzendorn on April 15 1945 . |
| 23 | Colchester council , which is seeking loans to improve the Greenstead area under the Government 's estate action programme , paid the artists £250 each for their work . |
| 24 | Eleven men have been jailed for up to ten years each for their part in the Strangeways prison riot . |
| 25 | She even packed a bag for each for them . |
| 26 | she save one each for them |
| 27 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 28 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 29 | Each for himself : David Blunkett on the Government 's inconsistency over collective self-help |
| 30 | All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’ |