Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ chemistry ’ of different verbal behaviours in interaction with one another has been carefully investigated and here are some of the findings together with their implications for you . |
| 2 | Moreover , since the end of the sixteenth century incoming cottagers had no common rights and were dependent entirely upon their labour for their living . |
| 3 | Her bare flesh came close enough to his face for him to inhale its pungent female odour and he peered around desperately into the gloom for some sign of his French companion . |
| 4 | ‘ If only I 'd known the truth about you , Shiona , there would have been no need for me to keep running away from my feelings for you . |
| 5 | Gleizes and Metzinger , carried away by their enthusiasm for his art , went so far as to suggest at one point in Du Cubisme that Cubism was simply a development of his work : ‘ To understand Cézanne is to foresee Cubism . |
| 6 | In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely . |
| 7 | Diplomatic staff such as herself depended heavily on goods brought in specially by their embassies for their use or on block orders from firms which existed to supply the needs of expatriates . |
| 8 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 9 | His right hand went automatically towards his pocket for his pipe . |
| 10 | The King , who had not forgotten the sermons of Andrewes , told Parliament that ‘ Princes are not bound to give account of their actions but to God alone ’ and that ‘ Parliaments are altogether in my power for their calling , sitting and dissolution ; as I find the fruits of them to be good or evil they are to continue or not to be . ’ |
| 11 | Once more he tried to stand and fell back , cursing , almost whimpering now in his fear for her . |
| 12 | Our best wishes go to those who retired from the Board during the year and we would like to thank all those who serve so tirelessly on our committees for their advice and guidance . |
| 13 | Living solely by their hopes for what , in effect , will enhance their ‘ vital motion ’ , and fear of what will impede it , they exist in a state of perpetual fear , suspicion , and competition . |
| 14 | Having been turned away from two restaurants , rather to my surprise for it was still early evening , I finally secured a table at the Restaurant Français of the Hotel Ambassador in Wenceslas Square . |
| 15 | I know of hospitals putting people into private nursing homes immediately after their operation for what is called ‘ post-operative care ’ . ’ |
| 16 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 17 | Yet future historians are likely to look more kindly on his achievements for his country than the present generation . |
| 18 | Nathan 's powerful body was taut and hard with his need for her . |
| 19 | It is a fundamental assumption for structural sociology that when we are born we are confronted by a social world which is just as real — at least in its consequences for our behaviour — as other realities which we also confront . |
| 20 | video there in your room for you . |
| 21 | ‘ The attraction of the place is that it lies spot-on a ley line — an imaginary line linking a few hunks of granite scattered around the landscape , supposed to have been put there by our ancestors for their spiritual gigs . |
| 22 | She 'd told Fen briefly about her concern for her mother , her need to assist financially where her brothers were concerned . |
| 23 | His heart , which had never been touched before , was filled completely with his love for her . |