Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 3 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 4 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 5 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 7 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 8 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 9 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 10 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 11 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 12 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 13 | The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days . |
| 14 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 15 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 16 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 17 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 18 | In exploring such environments pupils will experience the type of argument and logical analysis that will prepare them for the real-life problems they will tackle outside . |
| 19 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 20 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 21 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 22 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 23 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 24 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 25 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 26 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 27 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 28 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 29 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 30 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |