Example sentences of "[pron] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aircraft have transponder systems which locate the aircraft exactly so that everyone for several miles around knows where the aircraft is . |
| 2 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 3 | " I can do nothing for that boy . " |
| 4 | Julia felt nothing for that child , she did n't like her , she did n't hate her , I mean she , she did n't she just felt nothing cos that 's precisely what she told me , that 's her words , not mine , you know and I find then , that , she should n't be a childminder |
| 5 | In despair , I did nothing for another week . |
| 6 | And by now it was all or nothing for both teams … |
| 7 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 8 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 9 | ‘ I can do nothing for these engines here , in this storm ! |
| 10 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 11 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 12 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 13 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 14 | Been with me for many years . |
| 15 | With me for many years . ’ |
| 16 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 17 | He was a remarkable parliamentarian and , as a Minister , he was with me for many years . |
| 18 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 19 | I expected you to pay me for such attentions , my dear . |
| 20 | Indeed , leave all practical matters to me for all time . |
| 21 | Will you really stay with me for all time , be my wife ? ’ |
| 22 | Now , where did you say you were going to take me for that drink ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ No , I was hoping you 'd join me for that drink . ’ |
| 24 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 25 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 26 | Or in me for that matter ? |
| 27 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 28 | And marriage and being a mother terrifies me for that reason . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 30 | The course was important to me for several reasons . |