Example sentences of "[pron] of [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The two girls had stayed there and he knew it would hold nothing of interest for him .
2 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 .
3 We 'd have plenty of work for them you see .
4 Well , I 'll think there should be plenty of work for him , he 's quite .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Most of my summers were spent with Venturous in Scotland where there was still plenty of work for us .
8 If you 'd be quiet , they 'll be plenty of opportunity for you
9 In spite of this , there is plenty of scope for what is sought to be greatly reduced ; it is also possible for the permission to be limited in time , in other words for the development , building and/or use to be permitted only until some date in the future .
10 Most of the characterization is effected by the recitative , which varies from the driest quick quasi-parlando — Monteverdi sometimes writes only a single sustained note to carry eight or nine syllables — to actual melody , with every nuance between and naturally plenty of scope for his stile concitato .
11 Westwards from Schiehallion , at the very heart of Scotland , lies Rannoch Moor , a desolate wilderness , 1,000 feet above sea level ; and across the moor , from west to east , like a silver scar , are a series of lochs and rivers offering excellent game fishing ; plenty of space for everyone and plenty of fine wild brown trout .
12 There 's plenty of space for you to jot down those important dates , and there are super recipes to try throughout the year .
13 morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow
14 All wild creatures behave in the same way when presented with a cache of food and plenty of competition for it .
15 So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ?
16 There 's plenty of demand for their talents .
17 Endill found plenty of use for his screwdriver , unscrewing various bits and pieces round the school .
18 Plenty of room for everybody , so we do n't get in each other 's way . ’
19 Plenty of room for everything .
20 We had a house , plenty of room for everything , really , except that there was n't enough room for you and me , was there ?
21 The whole chapter is ridiculous , for example when Alice asked to sit down she was told there was no room , by the characters already sitting there , yet there was plenty of room for everyone to move round the table several times before returning to their original places .
22 There 's plenty of room , yeah there 's plenty of room for him to get passed in .
23 There 's plenty of room for me beside you . ’
24 Put tablespoons of the mixture on to greased baking trays and flatten , leaving plenty of room for them to spread .
25 David Nicholson says his yard is a fantastic place … all the horses and all the staff are more relaxed because there 's no roads to worry about and there 's plenty of room for them to roam … the horses are eating more and training hard
26 I am sorry The Mozartean Players omit the repeat in the first movement of K542 , which is one of Mozart 's best Trios ' especially since there is plenty of room for it on the disc .
27 ‘ Rainbow , sweetheart , there 's plenty of room for you back here , ’ she says .
28 We 've plenty of room for you .
29 We had plenty of room for you , even a small nursery upstairs — ’ Irene broke off and blew her nose .
30 A handful of gold for some could mean plenty of dust for us all .
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