Example sentences of "[det] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That spat did little for her confidence as she faced a battery of cameras waiting outside Goldsmiths Hall . |
| 2 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 3 | The singing , the pomp and the pageantry may have galvanised Welsh emotions , but it did little for their skills or tactical awareness . |
| 4 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 5 | His book of verse , Lucida Intervalla ( 1679 ) , does little for his reputation as a poet . |
| 6 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 7 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 8 | There was little for his comfort . |
| 9 | His attractive wife got out wearing too little for my ease . |
| 10 | Eleven men have been jailed for up to ten years each for their part in the Strangeways prison riot . |
| 11 | Colchester council , which is seeking loans to improve the Greenstead area under the Government 's estate action programme , paid the artists £250 each for their work . |
| 12 | They gave you half-a-crown each for your lunch every day , four old pence for coffee and four old pence for tea in the afternoon . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you know he pays five marks each for his cigars and if they go out he throws them away ? ’ |
| 14 | In 1938 he won a scholarship to Merton College , Oxford , where his influential tutor was Edmund Blunden [ q.v. ] , soldier-poet of an earlier war than that for which Douglas enlisted in 1940 . |
| 15 | Conservatives ( and Christian feminists also to some extent ) seek alternative ways in which the female can be symbolized in the religion , ways which it must be thought are less than satisfactory , and which become increasingly unsatisfactory as that for which women stand in our society changes . |
| 16 | He himself ‘ presses on ( strains forward ) to take hold of that for which Jesus Christ took hold of me ’ ( Phil . |
| 17 | But , having given permission and encouraged the port authority and dock company to move in and operate a port , which is a major long term undertaking , it is hardly reasonable to seek to stop or materially limit it without compensation and when the dock company is doing no more than making a success of that for which permission was granted . |
| 18 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 19 | erm the technical word for this is that for them universals are self-predicating — that sounds very and intelligible . |
| 20 | And I think as women we have to remember always that for whatever reasons , throughout history , all societies seem to be patriarchal . |
| 21 | So what 's that for what tablets have you got to have ? |
| 22 | Bucket and spade , they wanted that for their gardens . |
| 23 | They did that for their sins , she said , a kind of penance . |
| 24 | ‘ Just sign there … will you do that for me luvvy , will you , will you do that ? ? ’ |
| 25 | Gandhi 's reply to these kind of questions would probably indicate that for him morality has to be related to what he conceives religion to be . |
| 26 | A senior American diplomat agrees : ‘ If the United States can give Mexico access for agriculture , textiles and steel , why ca n't the EC do that for its neighbours ? ’ |
| 27 | I want to clarify that for us Hong Kong has been an excellent location for selling Chinese art and our sale in Taiwan in no way represents a change of heart . |
| 28 | I should say that for us revenue services , ordinary database services do come first keeping the tax level does come second and the prestige projects , even rather good ones like the market square project definitely come third . |
| 29 | The first was that for our generation we must learn how to live with the earth promoting harmony sustainability and diversity and , therefore , creation , spirituality was the keynote of the address . |
| 30 | My father always used to do that for his crocuses because the birds loved the yellow ones , do n't they ? |