Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 'll be the press gang for thee if we do n't run off , and God knows what 's for me without thee . ’ |
| 2 | And she could n't ring for them unless he was really awake . |
| 3 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 4 | It is possible that your local authority may ask you to audition for them after you have been offered a place . |
| 5 | There were cases of families being made to leave by conditions being rendered difficult for them after they had made complaints to the corporation housing department . |
| 6 | A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’ |
| 7 | While Nana denied that there were such things as duppies and forbade Martha to look under her old iron cot for them before she went to bed , Mada Joyce was expert on ghouls , ghosts , spirits and apparitions of all kinds , and had known a woman in another village who had actually seen the skinless old hag who sucked babies ' blood reach into the cradle of her new-born child and disappear with a shriek when she touched the Bible on the infant 's pillow . |
| 8 | ‘ Get out now , ’ Shamlou ordered the other two terrorists and waited for them before he entered the makeshift cage . |
| 9 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 10 | ‘ You could look for them while you 're drinking the coffee . ’ |
| 11 | And they 'll look for them while we 're away . |
| 12 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 13 | I 've looked after the kids for them while they 've gone to vote , anything to get them here , that was the thing . |
| 14 | Live food is the best diet for them although fresh or frozen meaty foods of small particle size can be substituted . |
| 15 | Our survey shows that highbrow readers rated their papers no more useful for them than the lowbrow papers were for their readers ( Table 6.11 ) . |
| 16 | In the London suburb where I live we see plenty of foxes , and I feel far greater affection for them than for the local cats or dogs . |
| 17 | Poverty is a more pressing problem for them than the greenhouse effect . |
| 18 | As Anthony Alexander , the group 's chief operating officer in Britain , put it , ‘ If we think we can get more for them than they are worth to us , we will sell . ’ |
| 19 | I am very grateful for all those who worked so hard on my behalf and I feel more sorry for them than for myself , ’ he said . |
| 20 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 21 | Although social workers were trained in dealing with stress , said Mr Gower , the whole subject of removing children from their parents was no less emotive for them than for other members of the community . |
| 22 | Yet Appendix II ( section 3 ) shows that many people feel that bank loans would be cheaper for them than HP or finance company loans , and better with the manager ‘ a real person ’ they could go to if there was some difficulty over repayments . |
| 23 | The Woodvilles ' power , by contrast , was almost entirely derivative , so much so that their identification with the prince was more of a bulwark for them than vice versa . |
| 24 | Because their reading skills are poor too , many reports end up in the waste bin — which is a better place for them than the filing cabinet . |
| 25 | It would be it would be better for them than doing all the extensions together cos doing all the extension booklets |
| 26 | I put more bums in beds for them than any other general manager they 've had . ’ |
| 27 | The wards were very very bare and the families look after the patients , they come in and give them food and erm do a lot more for them than er they do in this country and erm there were two wards out of eight for tuberculosis , for T B , cos that 's a very big problem out in Kenya . |
| 28 | It was an embarrassing situation , more so for them than for us . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , and their cats will be looked after too — one only hopes Daisy wo n't put in more food for them than for the humans . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It would be so much healthier for them than city streets . ’ |