Example sentences of "[vb base] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 2 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 3 | But they are ideally cast as Captain von Trapp and Max Detweiler respectively , and their imposing stage personalities more than compensate for their limitations as singers . |
| 4 | Acrobats , clowns and musicians jostle for your attention . |
| 5 | As evening approaches , other exciting opportunities jostle for your attention . |
| 6 | One , is there not a way in which your good tool could be perverted , and two , since this tool must inevitably be given into the hands of the people you despise for their aggressiveness and bad inheritance and rearing , how do you expect them to use it ? |
| 7 | Mm , push for your training , push to be spoken |
| 8 | And then Frusamide for your water tablet and that 's to start on Thursday and then review at end of pack . |
| 9 | Sometimes his work is immediate and comic : ‘ Elephants trumpet for his creed , he travels quicker than wildebeest . |
| 10 | She felt sure that one of those burning houses was her own and fear for her mother drove her on . |
| 11 | In front of the celluloid swordfight three hundred souls fear for their lives . |
| 12 | Many still fear for their lives , but have been told they can stay here until it 's safe to return . |
| 13 | WHILE the people of Hong Kong , stripped of any useful British nationality by successive immigration laws , fear for their future after the massacre at Peking in June , many Macao citizens , just 40 miles away across the Pearl River delta , rest secure in the knowledge that Portugal will offer them a guaranteed home of last resort after it returns their territory to China in 1999 . |
| 14 | I watch chalky earth plains give way to natural forest and fear for their future . |
| 15 | The family on benefit who fear for their future . |
| 16 | Farmworkers fear for their future if the Board now under government review is scrapped . |
| 17 | Tears and anger flow back and forward and round fear , fear for our survival , fear of rejection , fear of loss of dignity and of life . |
| 18 | When Kingfisher , the owners of Woolworths , declare that they regard price promotion as their biggest marketing weapon , I fear for our trade . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If we do n't join the European Community in full , I fear for our future , ’ says Mark Radcliffe . |
| 20 | BELVILLE : My dear , I fear for your head in all this . |
| 21 | " If it is indeed lost at sea , then I fear for your future . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he whispered , as if the very bushes concealed royal agents or spies , ‘ I fear for my uncle . ’ |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I fear for my safety . |
| 24 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 25 | Fear for his safety . ’ |
| 26 | Fear for his safety warred within her . |
| 27 | Two will go down , and unless fortunes change for our clubs the South will make up half of the Konica league next season , re-inforcing the ‘ poor cousins ’ reputation of North and Mid Wales . |
| 28 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 29 | Open years are syndicate years of account for which liabilities are too huge or unpredictable to be reinsured into a successor account . |
| 30 | He or she may — and probably will — possess a more subtle view of ‘ professionalism ’ than the capacity to deliver examination results , but at the same time it is well known that many parents and politicians see those results as the crucial way by which schools account for their success or failure . |