Example sentences of "for [noun prp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | When I caddy for Matt he made loads of putts , it 's was well cool . |
2 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
3 | For Trent it was a sizing-up process . |
4 | JOKER … but there will be no clowning glory for Gower he 's been snubbed by the England selectors for the winter tour of the sub-continent |
5 | He used to play for Hull I think did n't he ? |
6 | Without waiting for Chuck he strode off in the direction taken by the herd , and halfway across the grassland he let out a roar and dropped to his knees . |
7 | Probably because for Marc it was dangerous ground . |
8 | Fortunately for Duffield he will not miss the ride on User Friendly in the Japan Cup as that race is staged on November 29 . |
9 | As for Stirling it was , as their coach , Alan Armstrong , lamented , ‘ the same old story . |
10 | The T'ang 's words were a harmless play on the name of the Longjing ch'a , but for Ben they seemed to hold a special meaning . |
11 | As the first medical officer of health for Lambeth he gained direct experience of cholera and other water-borne diseases . |
12 | Multi-million pound Blackburn Rovers are trailing this side modestly built by Fred for Shrewsbury it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers one . |
13 | That was a great great left footed shot and could have got a nasty deflection , it 's luckily for Shrewsbury it went straight through everybody and er over for a goal kick . |
14 | For Ian he tunes in on Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address ; Barbara chooses the court of Elizabeth I , watching Shakespeare and Bacon vying for posterity ; and Vicki selects a 1965 performance by the Beatles , professing an interest in classical music . |
15 | and Lisa , I get it for Lisa she likes it . |
16 | Hercules , paying a visit , seduced her and she gave birth to a son , Telephus , with unfortunate consequences for them both , but for Hercules it was a passing encounter . |
17 | For Eugénie it was a splendid introduction to family life among the Bonapartes . |
18 | For Whitehall he was a ‘ handy City man ’ when it came to international finance , especially prior to 1914 when Britain practised imperialism in competition with other great powers . |
19 | The benefits of Eastern investment can be seen in February 's unemployment figures for Sunderland they have dropped by 314 on the previous month , thanks in the main to the ‘ Nissan effect ’ and the start of a huge recruitment campaign for 1,500 workers . |
20 | For March we have decided to have a members ' evening . |
21 | As Carson waited for Alison he wandered across to the kiosk , the floor was wet from swabbing down , and there was a faint smell of disinfectant rising from the glistening vinyl . |
22 | For Swindon it 's all smiles . |
23 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
24 | For Shildon it was two out of four . |
25 | ‘ When I played for Bangor we loved putting one over on Linfield or Glentoran — and nothing seems to have changed . |
26 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
27 | I would have thought that for Morecambe they 're probably looking at like a thousand eleven hundred people if , you know |
28 | Bradbury & Evans published and had a share in HW ; this caused complications when CD quarrelled with them in 1858 , and for AYR he became proprietor and his own publisher , making use of Chapman & Hall as paid agents . |
29 | For Bede he became the fifth overlord of all the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber ( HE II , 5 ) . |
30 | When he took classes for McWhirter he stuck to the Romantics , or things that one could get a good adolescent wallow out of : Housman , say , or The Ballad of Reading Gaol . |