Example sentences of "[pron] for [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best . |
| 2 | There was usually literally nothing for clients to do but sit , watch television , or walk about . |
| 3 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 4 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 5 | ‘ Although , God knows ’ , he said , ‘ the poor Birds ought to have a holiday from me for years to come , for I have been incessantly shooting and my own gun was not the only one that waged war upon them . |
| 6 | They may , however , ‘ advise their client and go to the bar for them for matters begun . ’ |
| 7 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 8 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 9 | But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it . |
| 10 | He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands . |
| 11 | The result was the abolition in February 1844 of the Secret Office which for generations had been intercepting letters of possible interest to the government . |
| 12 | Both of my hon. Friends know that their constituents live in an area which for generations has had health care that has been relatively less generously funded than that provided in the central London parts of the Thames regions . |
| 13 | El País of April 19 said that Menem had thus " opened a new front for political struggle within Peronism " ; the Saadi family which for decades had wielded considerable power in Catamarca , had provided crucial support to Menem in his ascent to presidential office . |
| 14 | However , the arrival on the scene of wonder drugs developed in Britain and America at long last conquered this disease which for decades had struck down young and old . |
| 15 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 16 | The effect was explosive , and deeply embarrassing to the government 's position , which for years had been obstructive — to such an extent that Britain had long been known as ‘ The Dirty Man of Europe ’ . |
| 17 | Also , the direct experience of ‘ contact ’ with the Führer through his major speeches , which for years had served as the ritualistic form of plebiscitary ‘ meeting ’ between the Leader and his people , to be repeated at regular intervals , took place only infrequently after 1942 . |
| 18 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |
| 19 | NEWS that an investigation has been started into the possible mis-assessment of ethnic minority children in Strathclyde has highlighted an issue which for years has been simmering in Britain 's classrooms and education departments . |
| 20 | Mann argues that the reasoning that rejects the notion of assignability of treaties resembles that which for centuries prevented assignment of debts in private law . |
| 21 | The princess , who heads the fund-raising Princess Royal Trust for Carers , said the medical profession and other agencies must realise the old family structures , which for centuries saw people looking after relatives without outside assistance , were gone probably for good . |
| 22 | Indeed it is difficult to exaggerate the impenetrability of the mystery which for centuries hung over the problem of the strength and fracture of solids . |
| 23 | These woods gave cover to the herds of wild deer which for centuries had provided sport for the kings and nobility , guests of the Berkeley family at the nearby castle . |
| 24 | The expanding Russian empire was showing an increasing interest in Northeast Asia , and China was likely to challenge any attempt by Japan to intervene in the affairs of a country which for centuries had been her foremost tributary . |
| 25 | The clearest and harshest expression of this twofold approach ( and one which certainly brings into the open its ultimate presuppositions ) was perhaps the application of the doctrine of predestination in the Federal or Covenant Theology of the seventeenth century as expressed in such classic statements as the Westminster Confession , which for centuries held sway on both sides of the Atlantic as the most widely authoritative summary in English of Reformed orthodoxy . |
| 26 | Thus when there was demand for training youth in drama the holder of the purse , the government , turned for advice not to educationalists , not to speech and drama experts ( although there was some overlap here ) , but to a small group of charismatic figures who for decades had been promoting community drama of one sort or another , promoting it by giving advice , by running courses , by setting up drama libraries of play-texts , by making links with professional theatre , by popularising competitive festivals . |
| 27 | It was our unclouded commitment to women , and greater insistence that the fundamentals of sexism should be tackled without compromise , that brought youth service attention back to the young women who for decades had been excluded by boys and men . |
| 28 | Even the most powerful of the Duke 's vassals , the Counts of Angoulême , who for generations had been accustomed to act as though they were independent princes , had twice conceded defeat , in 1176 and 1179 . |
| 29 | Though clearly , whatever the logic of the situation , Hitler could still rely upon substantial bonds of undying allegiance among his most loyal supporters , especially of course those who for years had been exposed to the full brunt of Party organization and indoctrination , there seems little doubt that the mass base of unquestioned trust in Hitler was already in 1942 beginning to give way . |
| 30 | Teachers who for years had planned in terms of appropriate actions could not overnight apply their minds to appropriate meanings as well . |