Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that I speak for many others , both in my party and outside it , who want to see a successful conclusion at Maastricht and who want political and economic union in Europe to go forward . |
| 2 | I am sure that I speak for all district society presidents when I say that this is just not true . |
| 3 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 4 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 5 | He even got himself a VC in the most alarming circumstances , but that did not stem my tears that I shed for this man . |
| 6 | Not in the sense that I work for any authority . |
| 7 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 8 | On the reverse of each plate is Cicely Mary Barker 's original poem that she penned for each fairy . |
| 9 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |
| 10 | Before that she worked for several companies in Taiwan , the last one being Coca-Cola . |
| 11 | We were given to understand that you asked for this article . ’ |
| 12 | The accounts that you have for this year , have been rearranged . |
| 13 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 14 | The warmth and affection that we felt for each other will always be with me . |
| 15 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 16 | Whatever that figure is there will automatically internally produce a target figure that we want for that book . |
| 17 | Yeah erm the amount of police necessary for each area is based on all sorts of statistics , and for the statis statistics that we have for this area , we have or the chief constable 's decided that he 'll allocate a hundred and two police officers to police this area , which we find adequate . |
| 18 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 19 | Hay 's booksellers justifiably boast that they cater for all tastes . |
| 20 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 21 | Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 23 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 24 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 25 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 26 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 27 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 28 | Albert was so distressed by the whole affair that he applied for another post further away from the scene of the tragedy . |
| 29 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 30 | I knew nothing really about the behind-the-scenes activities of missions working in remote islands , but the Australian representative , Brian Parker , explained that he worked for several missions of different denominations , arranging facilities , transfer of funds , booking hotels for newcomers and whatever might be needed . |