Example sentences of "[pron] of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another study George Bokert increased the degree of thirst in his subjects by not only depriving them of water for twenty-four hours , but also giving them a salty meal before going to bed . |
| 2 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 3 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 4 | The two girls had stayed there and he knew it would hold nothing of interest for him . |
| 5 | A long garden with plenty of tall shrubs and bushes means plenty of cover for an attacker to hide there and surprise you on your night-time walk to the front door . |
| 6 | At Cadger Bank , the hill which leads to the remote alley where the attack took place , there is plenty of cover for a rapist to hide . |
| 7 | It would soothe away the worries that ached in his head , even on this hazy gold morning of early September , with a fine harvest coming and plenty of work for the young men in the new town . |
| 8 | Trading statements and bid situations continued to provide plenty of work for analysts and recent buoyant sectors like properties , insurances , and stores ran into profit-taking . |
| 9 | Trading statements and bid situations continued to provide plenty of work for analysts and recent buoyant sectors like properties , insurances , and stores ran into profit-taking . |
| 10 | Orrell have Morris , England 's scrum-half , in full battle order , which should mean plenty of work for Emeruwa , White , who will be on the open side , and Ryan , the acting captain , at No 8 . |
| 11 | There was plenty of work for us at Lerwick harbour and around Bressay Sound at the new oil bases , some of which were already operating . |
| 12 | Most of my summers were spent with Venturous in Scotland where there was still plenty of work for us . |
| 13 | Then there was plenty of work for them but then when the erm , the one man buses really got going and they introduced the night safe on the buses , the ticket office was cut drastically , they did n't need to have all this information . |
| 14 | We 'd have plenty of work for them you see . |
| 15 | But however I suppose it but it takes it 's like everything else but it 's a dead it really is a trade er Graham was saying to m to me when I was down in London , he says , It 's a pity mum that you could n't get work you know , I mean , you just did n't have the you know , your age and that to start work down here , he says , there 'd be plenty of work for you . |
| 16 | So if he thinks that Colin do have six working for him , and he 's got enough work for six , then surely there 's gon na be plenty of work for two of 'em . |
| 17 | Well , I 'll think there should be plenty of work for him , he 's quite . |
| 18 | And while Hendrie has plenty of sympathy for the Wimbledon midfielder , ending Boro 's 10-match run without a win takes precedence this afternoon . |
| 19 | There are plenty of reasons for supposing that the merger trend will gain vigour . |
| 20 | For those with the nerves for it , shorting was a grand way to make money in the American market for most of 1990 , as the thrifts mess , the problems of the commercial banks , falling property prices and a bevy of highly borrowed companies going bust provided plenty of reasons for share prices to fall . |
| 21 | By the time President Reagan came to office on 20 January 1981 he had plenty of reasons for wishing to emulate Henry II . |
| 22 | Subsequent chapters of this book will provide us with plenty of reasons for doubting that claim . |
| 23 | So it dominates our screens , it dominates our man , it 's a religion , it encourages bigotry it encourages to neglect their se , their er domestic duties plenty of reasons for not liking football ! |
| 24 | The demand for more classroom resources , particularly in the primary sector , is contradicted to some extent by information in Regional documents and comments from health board personnel which suggest that there are plenty of resources for health education . |
| 25 | This trick seems likely to ensure plenty of immediate development work on applications and so plenty of products for NT when it arrives . |
| 26 | There is plenty of evidence for this impression of ‘ hardness ’ throughout Wordsworth 's life , frequently related to us by London ‘ witlings ’ whose smooth sophistication he was not likely to suffer gladly . |
| 27 | There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge . |
| 28 | Plenty of evidence for the misbehaviour of , in this case , a very substantial minority ( have you ever , like me , driven at 30 in a 30mph zone and been constantly overtaken , even glared at for going too slowly ? ) ; yet this is never put forward as a reson for stopping road construction . |
| 29 | Certain types of taxation also continued : the seventh century boasts plenty of evidence for tolls of various kinds , which will be considered in chapter 12 . |
| 30 | There 's plenty of hay for a bed . |